[kictanet] Equitel - M-Pesa battle heats up as Safaricom hikes termination fees

[simiyu mse]

Its easy to throw stones at the elephant eating your vegetables calling it
a brute when you are busy cordoning off its migration routes.

My 2cents in MPesa balance.
On Aug 21, 2015 3:32 AM, "Rose Lukalo -Owino via kictanet" <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> I could not agree with you more JB. Pretty thoughtless move on part of
> Safcom at a time when it is under scrutiny and should be "playing nice"..
> Rose
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> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:00 PM, Ohaga JB via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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>> The regulators have been searching rather 'unsuccessfully ' at examples
>> or scenarios when Safcom abused it's dominance, I may well be very wrong
>> but this here seems to me like the perfect example!
>>
>> JB.
>>
>> On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 20:57 Ali Hussein via kictanet <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>
>>> This is definitely a case that requires serious attention from the
>>> regulator.
>>>
>>> Ali Hussein
>>> Tel: +254 713 601113
>>> On Aug 20, 2015 8:36 PM, "ngethe.kariuki2007 via kictanet" <
>>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Since Safaricom is dominant in the mobile money termination market and
>>>> in the absence of any regulation, it is in their interest to maximise
>>>> returns in that "market segment" .So, Safaricom is behaving as expected!
>>>>
>>>> John Kariuki
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sent from Samsung Mobile
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -------- Original message --------
>>>> From: Dennis Kioko via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>>>> Date:
>>>> To: ngethe.kariuki2007 at yahoo.co.uk
>>>> Cc: Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi at gmail.com>
>>>> Subject: [kictanet] Equitel - M-Pesa battle heats up as Safaricom hikes
>>>> termination fees
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Good Afternoon Listers,
>>>> Safaricom has increased termination fee - the amount of money paid to
>>>> it by Equitel for money to be sent from one network to another.
>>>>
>>>> This has left Equitel users with high transaction costs on Equitel to
>>>> M-Pesa transactions. See story
>>>> here http://www.infotake.co.ke/2015/08/equitel-users-silently-hit-by-100.html
>>>> <http://www.infotake.co.ke/2015/08/equitel-users-silently-hit-by-100.html>
>>>>
>>>>
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