[kictanet] Mpesa Migration

[Barrack Otieno]

Grace,

I think the Mshwari limit will be increased.

Regards

On 4/20/15, Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> 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.
>
> ______________________
> Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya
>
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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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