[kictanet] How Safaricom Steals Your Internet Bundle

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> 99% of Kenya’s 6.5m <http://cck.go.ke/news/2012/Mobile_Subscribers.html> internet
> users access it via mobile, of which Safaricom owns 77% marketshare.
>
> In Kenya, when you buy a 1.5Gb internet bundle from Safaricom you pay
> 1000ksh (~$12). You’ve paid for the data, and there is no additional cost
> to Safaricom if you were to use that data today or a year from now. The
> whole concept of data bundle expiry is ridiculous, as noted by Safaricom
> CEO Bob Collymore when he visited the iHub:
>
> “When you go into a petrol station and fill up your car, does the owner of
> the petrol station tell you to bring it back on Wednesday to take back
> what’s left in the vehicle? Of course not. So I ask, why the hell are we
> doing that?”
>
>
> Read on
>
> http://whiteafrican.com/2012/07/18/how-safaricom-steals-your-internet-bundle/
>


Hahaa. I thought it would be a different story. My 3GiBs always diappear
like I don't know how to utilize and count! I mean, in no time, but I can
blame that on Bill Gates, not Bob!



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