[kictanet] Safaricom Gears for Triple Play

[Kivuva]

On 14 November 2013 06:03, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:

> Kivuva
>
> On the contrary..you will be surprised how far zuku has penetrated the
> rural areas..in my home counties of Kilifi and Mombasa (Yes, I have dual
> citizenship) :)
>

NIS are lsitening :)

I'm impressed how far they have gone in getting content there..something
> that the other Telcos have clearly not achieved.
>

This is great to know. There is big demand for content but my rural areas
of Eastlands seem neglected. Maybe because we prefer illegal connections
and pirated content. :(


> We hope that the Universal Access Fund will be able to achieve.
>
> Ali Hussein
>
> +254 0770 906375 / 0713 601113
>
> "Kujikwaa si kuanguka, bali ni kwenda mbele" (To stumble is not to fall
> but a sign of going forward) - Swahili Proverb
>
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>
> On Nov 14, 2013, at 8:36 AM, Kivuva <Kivuva at transworldafrica.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Ali for sharing.
> This is good competition, although Safaricom is now geered towards
> becoming a major monopoly in different sectors of ICTs given their
> financial muscle and wide coverage.
>
> I hope Safaricom will be able to take content to the mwananchi in less
> privillaged areas, something that Zuku has clearly refused to do. Zuku will
> only have themselves to blame if Safaricom gains marketshare in tripple
> play business given that Zuku were first-to-market, an advantage they have
> refused to capitalise on.
>
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> On 13 November 2013 22:40, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:
>
>> Listers
>>
>> This has been in the,works for a whole and now its a reality. I wonder
>> how this will affect Zuku...
>> Safaricom targets TV
>>
>> Safaricom, Kenya’s biggest telco, plans to begin selling bundled Internet
>> and TV services for on-demand viewing within the next 12 months, Chief
>> Executive Officer Bob Collymore said.
>>
>> “We will provide aggregation of content and delivery of content,”
>> Collymore told Bloomberg. “Certainly within the year, we could be playing
>> relatively prominently in that space.”
>>
>> The bundles, available on devices including tablet computers, mobile
>> phones and television sets, are aimed at tapping revenue streams beyond the
>> company’s core voice service. Competition in Kenya’s telecommunications
>> market three years ago triggered a price war, causing a sharp reduction in
>> mobile-phone call rates that led companies to expand into new lines of data
>> business to attract subscribers.
>>
>> “We will become a content provider to several forms of media including TV
>> stations and YouTube,” Collymore said, without providing more details.
>> “People want to decide when they want to consume, they don’t want you to
>> tell them. That immediacy is, I think, how the future will be defined.”
>>
>> Sales growth from M-Pesa, Safaricom’s mobile phone money-transfer system,
>> Internet and text-message services has outpaced revenue from voice for at
>> least the past three years, according to the company’s latest annual
>> report. Still, the share of revenue from phone calls was 60 per cent of
>> total sales in the year through March versus about a third for non-voice.
>> http://advanced-television.com/2013/11/13/safricom-targets-tv/
>>
>> Ali Hussein
>>
>> +254 0770 906375 / 0713 601113
>>
>> "Kujikwaa si kuanguka, bali ni kwenda mbele" (To stumble is not to fall
>> but a sign of going forward) - Swahili Proverb
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
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