[kictanet] Safaricom Gears for Triple Play

[Adam Nelson]

Can Safaricom even deliver triple play without LTE?

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On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Kivuva <Kivuva at transworldafrica.com> wrote:

>
> 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
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> ______________________
>> Mwendwa Kivuva
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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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