[kictanet] Safaricom Gears for Triple Play

Thu Nov 21 13:40:15 EAT 2013

LTE is not that far off...

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:27 AM, John Gitau <jgitau at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes of course they can. LTE can come later. Anyone including jtl and
> access kenya (anyone with fiber in your house) can probably offer some sort
> tv or other high end service including security.
>
> Personally I would buy a service that bundles a physical camera in my home
> office, a working dns service, hosting, Internet, home router with a
> firewall and parental controls I can remote manage (parental control can be
> in the cloud) , TV and a data backup solution
>
> If they focus on specific verticals like hospitality, financial sector and
> medical before the mass market as sample groups I think they can offer more
> than TV to include other multicast services. I can think of only one
> network ready for that.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 14 Nov 2013, at 10:41, Adam Nelson <adam at varud.com> wrote:
>
> 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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