[kictanet] SPAM/OPT IN/OPT OUT MARKETING FROM THE TELCOS - DEATH BY SMS

Fri May 3 11:18:12 EAT 2013

William

I am not sure how that is related to Spamming us? And in this case I am not
only talking about Safaricom but all the other Telcos and PRSPs..

Maybe you can elaborate further for us?

*Ali Hussein*

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*Partner, Telemedia Africa Ltd
*

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On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 10:56 AM, William Warero <wwarero at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would like to provide an alternate perspective.
>
> Consider the fact that the network's regulations and ownership of the SIM
> card and service remains entirely with the network.
>
> Safaricom has protected her database for a very long time, even
> maintaining a low frequency on her own service messages.
>
> This in my view has been slightly counterproductive to them because the
> expectation is that no message should be received where ideally these
> messages should be similar to premium TV advertisement slots.
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Lizette Kraft <lfkraft at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Gosh, Thank you Ali for bringing this up. Safaricom continues to send
>> useless msgs so many times a day and every day to watch "bunitv" dont know
>> what thats about but heck who needs this. There are other msgs being sent
>> too and this is so very fustrating. They should be made to stop!! I am
>> wondering if we are being charged for these msgs?? My credit seems to
>> finish so quickly off late. Can we get a contact to help or??
>>
>> Cheers
>> Lizette
>> On 2 May 2013 16:07, <andrea.bohnstedt at ratio-magazine.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, Kenya does, but I don't want to switch operators. I want my current
>>> providers to stop spamming me.
>>>
>>>  ----------
>>> Sent from my Nokia phone
>>>
>>> ------Original message------
>>> From: Adam Nelson <adam at varud.com>
>>> To: "Andrea Bohnstedt" <andrea.bohnstedt at ratio-magazine.com>
>>> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>>> Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013 2:04:27 PM GMT+0200
>>> Subject: Re: [kictanet] SPAM/OPT IN/OPT OUT MARKETING FROM THE TELCOS -
>>> DEATH BY SMS
>>>
>>> On a related note, does Kenya have phone number portability so that
>>> people
>>> can just switch carriers.  I personally think structural solutions like
>>> that are better than regulatory ones like banning SMS alerts (although I
>>> would certainly be in favor of that too).
>>>
>>> In the US, one can switch a phone number to another carrier in under an
>>> hour.
>>>
>>> https://twitter.com/varud
>>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamcnelson
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Andrea Bohnstedt <
>>> andrea.bohnstedt at ratio-magazine.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > I have - slightly laboriously - managed to get myself unsubscribed from
>>> > Airtel's permanent (and sometimes badly spelled and edited) text
>>> messages
>>> > by contacting someone in the firm I knew. But since then, Safcom's
>>> > messaging has really picked up, so if there's anyone on this list has a
>>> > contact (or an automated mechanism) to opt out, I'd also like to know.
>>> >
>>> > Plus any way of preventing the Safaricom dongle from automatically
>>> opening
>>> > their bundles website?
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On 2 May 2013 14:38, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Listers
>>> >>
>>> >> If you are like me you must by now be going out of your mind with
>>> useless
>>> >> SMS messages from the different players in the Telco sector.
>>> >>
>>> >> Is there some rule somewhere that CCK can dust off and ask them to
>>> stop
>>> >> sending these SMSs to 'abused' subscribers like myself.
>>> >>
>>> >>  Or at the very least could you at least give us an option to Opt Out
>>> of
>>> >> this deluge of useless (in my opinion) SMSs?
>>> >>
>>> >> In my case I am specifically referring to Safaricom. I know that
>>> >> Safaricom has sophisticated Mass Customisation tools and if they use
>>> their
>>> >> Analytic Tools they would have known that for a Muslim (assuming in
>>> the
>>> >> majority of cases they would make deductions by name usage) a message
>>> that
>>> >> reads:-
>>> >>
>>> >> *'Watch Pastor Tim's Sunday Sermon...' *
>>> >>
>>> >> is particularly useless for a Muslim. If I were a Conspiracy Theorist
>>> >> (Luckily I am not. :-)) I may start making assumptions that Safaricom
>>> wants
>>> >> to convert me to a Christian.
>>> >>
>>> >> Dear Safaricom, please give me an option to opt out of your SMS
>>> deluge..
>>> >>
>>> >> Death by SMS :-)
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> *Ali Hussein*
>>> >>
>>> >> *CEO, 3mice interactive media ltd*
>>> >>
>>> >> *Partner, Telemedia Africa Ltd
>>> >> *
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Tel: +254713601113
>>> >>
>>> >> Twitter: @AliHKassim
>>> >>
>>> >> Skype: abu-jomo
>>> >>
>>> >> LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim<
>>> http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim>
>>> >>
>>> >> Blog: www.alyhussein.com
>>> >>
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>> not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
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> for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and
> regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT
> sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development.
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> KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors
> online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth,
> share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do
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