[kictanet] Safaricom caps Internet Bundles sharing

Wed Jan 28 12:26:35 EAT 2015

James 

Good points.

Dennis however said there may be some element of fraud. What do you say to that? 

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> On Jan 28, 2015, at 11:58 AM, James Mbugua via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> 
> 
> Take it this way...I buy a bundle for Sh1000. I get 1.5GB. There is an extra 500Mb which I can sell.
> 
> At about 11K I get 20GB. You see the math.
> 
> The so-called "free" data can be repackaged into saleable data packages.
> 
> Onto the questions:
> 
> 1. Safaricom has always been out-innovated by our young chaps. Whether it is the guys who were running MPESA in Kampala and Juba or the guys who created a thriving market for BongaPoints or this..you name it.
> 
> 2. Yes. The behaviour is anti-competitive.
> 
> They have already sold the data and gotten their money, why do they want to go after resellers and their customers?
> 
> I think these things will continue happening until the giant realizes it is grown too big to be bothering with individual customers on some things. Just let resellers handle it.
> 
> JG
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Dennis Kioko via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>> You can still buy bulk bundles - 20 GB etc and resell at lower costs than smaller bundles, but not to the extent that these guys were selling them that, indicating their acquisition price was way too low. 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Wed Jan 28 2015 at 10:38:40 Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I have always wondered how come people were able to sell bundles cheaply than Safaricom sells.
>>> 
>>>> On 28 January 2015 at 09:45, Dennis Kioko via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> It seems the bundles being sold here were fraudulently acquired from a program that provides promotional bundles to newly activated phones.
>>>> 
>>>> Most of such issues emanate from internal fraud.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 02:47 Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>>> Listers
>>>>> 
>>>>> I found this article extremely interesting for two key reasons:-
>>>>> 
>>>>> 1. Are Safaricom customers (resellers) out-innovating the giant? Some savvy Kenyans have found a way to sell data cheaper than Safaricom. How about that? 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 2. Would you categorize Safaricom's behavior as Anti-Competitive or justified to ensure certain levels of 'service'? 
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/Safaricom-targets-data-resellers/-/539550/2599286/-/item/0/-/bkx19ez/-/index.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> Judge for yourself.
>>>>> 
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