[kictanet] Mpesa Migration

[Mwendwa Kivuva]

There is also an interesting article on Business Daily
http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/Safaricom-says-migration-of-M-Pesa-successful/-/539550/2690806/-/54s1ui/-/index.html

The mobile money platform was previously hosted in Germany and was prone to
interruptions whenever undersea fibre optic cables relaying information got
damaged.

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On 20 April 2015 at 12:27, Grace Mutung'u (Bomu) via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Thanks Washington!
> The deate on whether coming home has any import on sharing the platform is
> interesting. Lets watch the space.
>
> 2015-04-20 12:16 GMT+03:00 Odhiambo Washington via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>:
>
>>
>>
>> On 20 April 2015 at 11:56, Grace Mutung'u (Bomu) via kictanet <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Listers,
>>> Other than the emotional value, what is in it for Kenyans with Mpesa
>>> "coming home"?
>>>
>>
>> Hi Grace,
>>
>> Someone has penned the following: http://goo.gl/yvooPb
>>
>> However, from where I sit, I think it's just the sentimental/emotional
>> value that's being peddled. It's Kenyan product (really?? Which Kenyan did
>> it?) and it's been living in exile, but now we've brought it home! Okay,
>> that sounds quite negative so let me add..
>>
>> I hope that clients will never see/hear "M-Pesa is experiencing delays.
>> Please wait for 10 minutes and try again". Item number 2 in the referenced
>> article seemed to want to touch on issues like this, but it doesn't
>> expressly say why we used to get such delays when the old (G-1) system
>> didn't actually hit it's peak limit. So maybe it was an issue with Internet
>> traffic delays to Germany, which is now eliminated from the equation by the
>> local hosting of the servers.
>>
>> Maybe this G-2 will be opened up for the other Telcos, something that has
>> always been in contention. Item 3 in the referenced article wanted to talk
>> about that, but ended up with unnecessary noise. Time will tell whether
>> Safaricom will allow others to compete with it in its own platform.
>>
>>
>> Ni hayo tu kutoka kwangu.
>>
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