[kictanet] kictanet Digest, Vol 72, Issue 8
Michael Bullut
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Fri May 3 13:20:42 EAT 2013
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pen source thin clients?
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> 1. Re: SPAM/OPT IN/OPT OUT MARKETING FROM THE TELCOS - DEATH BY
> SMS (Brian Ngure)
> 2. Re: SPAM/OPT IN/OPT OUT MARKETING FROM THE TELCOS - DEATH BY
> SMS (andrea.bohnstedt at ratio-magazine.com)
> 3. Re: SPAM/OPT IN/OPT OUT MARKETING FROM THE TELCOS - DEATH BY
> SMS (Peter Owino)
> 4. Spain's Extremadura starts switch of 40, 000 government PCs
> to open source (Evans Ikua)
> 5. Digital TV Migration: Local stations turnoff digital
> transmission (robert yawe)
>
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 15:17:17 +0300
> From: Brian Ngure <brian at pixie.co.ke>
> To: Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke>
> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] SPAM/OPT IN/OPT OUT MARKETING FROM THE TELCOS
> - DEATH BY SMS
> Message-ID:
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> Hi,
>
> I have just received Safaricom's advice to watch Pastor Tim this Sunday :)
>
> I have written quite a number of emails to Safaricom customer care asking
> to be removed from whatever mailing list they are using but have not
> received a single response. Tried calling but could not past the IVR.
> Surely, I should be asked first if I want to receive these sms messages,
> yes? It is one of the requirements for the new SDP system they are making
> PRSPs implement after all. Why should they break their own rules?
>
> Perhaps CCK could implement a "Do Not Call" registry like in the USA (
> https://www.donotcall.gov).
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 2:38 PM, 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
> >
> >
> > Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are purely
> > mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the
> > organizations that I work with.
> >
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> Brian Ngure
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 02 May 2013 12:12:17 +0000
> From: <andrea.bohnstedt at ratio-magazine.com>
> To: <adam at varud.com>
> Cc: kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] SPAM/OPT IN/OPT OUT MARKETING FROM THE TELCOS
> - DEATH BY SMS
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> 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
> >>
> >>
> >> Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are purely
> >> mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the
> >> organizations that I work with.
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> kictanet mailing list
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> >>
> >> The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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
> >> not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Andrea Bohnstedt <http://ke.linkedin.com/in/andreabohnstedt>
> > Publisher
> >
> > www.ratio-magazine.com
> > www.africa-assets.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform
> > 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.
> >
> > 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
> > not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
> >
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 12:18:42 +0000
> From: "Peter Owino" <mpodhiambo at yahoo.com>
> To: "Ali Hussein" <ali at hussein.me.ke>, "kictanet"
> <kictanet-bounces+mpodhiambo=yahoo.com at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] SPAM/OPT IN/OPT OUT MARKETING FROM THE TELCOS
> - DEATH BY SMS
> Message-ID:
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> <337989635-1367497154-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-755352142- at b13.c13.bise7.blackberry
> >
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252"
>
> +1 Ali
> I've just received it too! Wondered when I subscribed!
> Sent from my BlackBerry?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke>
> Sender: "kictanet" <kictanet-bounces+mpodhiambo=
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> Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 14:38:11
> To: mpodhiambo at yahoo.com<mpodhiambo at yahoo.com>
> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Subject: [kictanet] SPAM/OPT IN/OPT OUT MARKETING FROM THE TELCOS - DEATH
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> 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.
>
> 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
> not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 16:47:42 +0300
> From: Evans Ikua <ikua.evans at gmail.com>
> To: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Subject: [kictanet] Spain's Extremadura starts switch of 40, 000
> government PCs to open source
> Message-ID:
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>
> "The government of Spain's autonomous region of Extremadura has begun the
> switch to open source of it desktop PCs. The government expects the
> majority of its 40,000 PCs to be migrated this year, the region's CIO
> Theodomir Cayetano announced on 18 April. Extremadura estimates that the
> move to open source will help save 30 million euro per year."
> Read more here:
>
> https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/spains-extremadura-starts-switch-40000-government-pcs-open-source
>
>
>
> *My estimation that for every 300 dollars of my tax money that the
> Government spends on MS Office licensing, 250 dollars is wasted.*
>
> --
> *----------------------------------------------------
> Kind Regards,
> Evans Ikua,*
> lanetconsulting.com,
> lpi-eastafrica.org,
> ict-innovation.fossfa.net,
> Twitter: @ikuae
> Cell: +254-722-955831
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> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 15:35:49 +0100 (BST)
> From: robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>
> To: Kictanet Mail list <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
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> Subject: [kictanet] Digital TV Migration: Local stations turnoff
> digital transmission
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>
> Hi,
>
> Thought the share some new developments in the Digital Migration issues,
> as of last Saturday all the local TV stations except for KBC and family
> have disconnected their channel feed over the digital frequency.
>
> I believe this is to enforce the recent demand by the Media Owners
> Association? to be issued with a digital TV distribution license which is
> likely to slowdown the migration and also the roll out of LTE.
>
>
> (
> http://www.cofek.co.ke/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1552:kneya-media-owners-demand-third-digital-signal-licence-&catid=1:latest-news
> )
>
>
> As of this posting over 1,000,000 consumers (COFEK), spread across the
> country, of the Startimes service do not have access to the local TV
> channels some are situated in areas that only received the KBC channels.
>
> If this is how the private sector intends to arm twist the government into
> getting their way then as a nation we are in trouble, this action is
> jeopardizing a second foreign investors investment in the digital TV space.
>
>
> We have got to this situation all because of the meddling in a process by
> COFEK therefore I expect them to be on the streets tomorrow demanding that
> the signal be reinstated with immediate effect.
>
>
> ?
> Robert Yawe
> KAY System Technologies Ltd
> Phoenix House, 6th Floor
> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
> Kenya
>
>
> Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
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