[kictanet] Equity says M-Pesa lines should be open

[Collins Areba | Tel +254 707 750 788 | twitter @brainiacKE]

I thought there was already open access: you send money from Mpesa to
another network and they go to an Mpesa agent and collect the cash,
you send from Airtel to a safaricom subscriber and they go to an
airtel agent and collect the cash. What else do they want? Send from
Airtel to safaricom and reflect on Mpesa account balance.... Or is it
load Airtel airtime into safaricom and use safaricom services for
it....

On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 10:58 AM, meshack emakunat <memakunat at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi
> apart from sharing the MPESA platform. It would also be better if credit
> scratch cards are controlled and shared one for all. In this case if i am
> using orange line in the wilderness of north eastern and the only available
> credit scratch card is airtel or yu, then i need nopt worry since i can also
> trop up using them.
>
> Regards
> Meshack
>
> ________________________________
> From: Kivuva <Kivuva at transworldafrica.com>
> To: memakunat at yahoo.com
> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Sent: Thursday, August 1, 2013 10:33 PM
>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Equity says M-Pesa lines should be open
>
> Well side Ali. This is plain mischief from the part of Equity bank.
> Since there are better options out there than MPESA, why does Equity
> want Safaricom to share it's cake? Innovation and building an
> ecosystem takes years of painstaking work, sacrifice and investment.
> Equity is trying to push a mountain. I don't see Safaricom/Vodafone
> shareholders even considering the option of opening up the platform.
>
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