[kictanet] Mpesa Migration

[Ali Hussein]

Dennis

Safaricom needs to outsource cloud to Angani (disclosure: I'm a fan) :)

Seriously though, for as long as Mpesa is under the control of Safaricom/Vodafone it will nor grow beyond Kenya. Safaricom uses Mpesa as a big stick against its competitors and I'm not sure that's the way to grow a brand.  

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> On Apr 21, 2015, at 2:39 PM, Dennis Kioko via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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> By having a separate M-Pesa server and control over the same, allows Safaricom to vastly improve what M-Pesa can do, and also experiment a lot with the local market. 
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> Kenya is more mature than other countries in M-Pesa products -  Safaricom is able to specifically create new services for Kenya. 
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> Secondly, Safaricom's running of M-Pesa servers enables the firm to build its cloud skills, and also to bring down the cost of cloud solutions to some extent, in my opinion. After all, skills and capacity can be shared with M-Pesa, with fixed costs coming down due to M-Pesa's uptake. 
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>> On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 at 13:57 Phares Kariuki via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>> Safaricom does not really care about QoS for users in India or Latvia for that matter. It's the KE users. 
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>> Phares 
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>>> On Apr 21, 2015, at 1:48 PM, Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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>>>> On 21 April 2015 at 09:47, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>> 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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>>> Ali, MPESA has gone global but not as a Safaricom product since the IP is owned by Vodafone. MPESA is in India, South Africa, Tanzania, Afghanistan, e.t.c.  I am not an IP expert, but forget Safaricom ever getting anything out of it from the global market. Vodafone has that in their pockets.
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