[kictanet] Equity Bank vs Safaricom :-Round 2

[Collins Areba]

"We are glad to use this platform to deliver an extension service to our
customers, It is our heartfelt desire to satisfy our customers first, and
if technology affords us that opportunity, we are obliged to take up on it.
If the same technology should allow us to interact with our customers, and
have an opportunity to give them *voice and data* in the same breath, then
why not, those would be extras to the benefit of our client... "

Paraphrased from memory during an interview on Citizen last week. I think
this opens the game wide Open, and For the Record, Safaricom should be
given a Commercial Banking license.

My 10 Cents.

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Walubengo J via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Listers,
>
> I thought you might find this interesting,
>
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> After Equity Bank decided to directly play in the mobile money market by
> issuing its own SIM cards, we debated heatedly in a previous blog whether
> Safaricom had finally met its match.  At the time, it was assumed that
> Equity would be selling the traditional SIM card, which would require
> customers to either buy dual SIM-card phones or carry two phones in order
> to access services from two existing providers.
>
> Even within the inconvenient scenario above, Equity with its large
> customer base was bound to pose some significant competition to the leading
> mobile money provider Safaricom.  The surprise, it seems, is the secret
> weapon Equity unveiled recently in the form of a Thin-SIM Card....
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> Read more @
>
> http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot9/walubengo/-/2274560/2453920/-/11d48l2z/-/index.html
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