[kictanet] Mpesa Migration

[Ali Hussein]

True that. Majority of users are in Kenya. For now. Would really be interesting to see how this affects the plans to go global especially if they want to tap into the remittances business and Vodafone has global ambitions for Mpesa...

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> On Apr 21, 2015, at 9:41 AM, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> 
> Majority of the customers are in Kenya, the logic of keeping traffic
> local as Phares has explained makes sense.
> 
> Regards
> 
> On 4/21/15, Ahmed Mohamed Maawy via kictanet
> <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>> I think the broader issue here is Safaricom is a Kenyan company - based in
>> Kenya. And the servers were in the UK. That is what all this is about.
>> 
>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 9:28 AM, simiyu mse via kictanet <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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>>> Is this to say the system is not being future proofed with the intent
>>> to go global, since in this case the physical location of said servers
>>> should not be an issue.
>>> 
>>> When it comes to cost, i believe any internet traffic cost savings
>>> will be translated to the maintainance and running of the local tier 2
>>> data centers set up for this infrastructure. Am sure they are running
>>> more than one for this.
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