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Date: Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 6:38 PM<br>Subject: [Skunkworks] How Swift-Global's Mabeshte became millions of times better than KDN's butterfly<br>To: Skunkworks Mailing List <<a href="mailto:skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke">skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke</a>><br>
<br><br>well, Mabeshte is just-so-obviously-much-better than Butterfly. Its a<br>
good thing KDN gave it to swift-global. KDN din't know how to manage<br>
butterfly the way swift-global does... in fact, KDN did such a bad<br>
job, that swift-global had to rebrand it to Mabeshte.<br>
<br>
Me and swift-global are trully "mabeshte" :-).<br>
<br>
You see, Mabeshte is so much better than butterfly because......<br>
<br>
1) Butterfly was cheaper<br>
.... but eww!! who wants cheap things!? excuse me, but I like to live<br>
above my means. Butterfly had a monthly unlimited bundle that cost<br>
2320..... but how was it cheaper if Mabeshte sells unlimited internet<br>
for 24hrs at 50 bob (i.e 1500 bob a month) ???? -> well... it turns<br>
out that you will never spend just 50bob on mabeshte to get their net.<br>
Oh nooo.... there's the 10bob transaction fee charged for the paybill<br>
payment..... and to that, add the 50bob cred you'll spend calling<br>
support coz their system won't automatically email/text you a username<br>
& pass to surf through mabeshte. If you're lucky, u may have to spend<br>
100bob if the system �completely missed� the mpesa sms for some<br>
reason....<br>
<br>
...in fact, its taken 5hrs and a bamba 50 for me to start surfing on<br>
mabeshte to send this email.<br>
<br>
and as for reversal of a botched payment.... it could take up to<br>
60hours for swift-global to initiate it � ( and, as my collegue<br>
experienced it, you may have to send them instructions [with<br>
screen-shots] on how perform a reversal)<br>
and how is that a good thing.... it turns out that the longer it takes<br>
for you to receive an mpesa sms, the sweeter it is when it gets there<br>
:-)<br>
<br>
and while the monthly payment to butterfly was apparently �more<br>
convenient� than paying 50bob daily to mabeshte, I like the way<br>
mabeshte helps me impress my friends because I appear to have money in<br>
my mpesa all the time :-), hehehehehe<br>
<br>
Additionally, calling their support number (020692100) will first give<br>
you a pre-recorded "hallo"... and then give you a dial-tone which is<br>
actually charged as if someone picked up the phone!! my friends now<br>
think i'm on post-paid!! Swaga aje aje!! try it now and see! Just<br>
call, get to dial-tones, hang-up, and see your cred<br>
<br>
Disclaimer: tested on safcom.<br>
<br>
2) Butterfly was faster....<br>
And yes... Swift-Global, in all their intelligence, know that capping<br>
speeds to 64kBps (kiloBYTES, not kilobits) helps reduce global warming<br>
and surges Kenya towards realisation of the vision2030 and Konza<br>
City....<br>
�. and butterfly did the opposite... you see .... it was just *TOO*<br>
fast. And y'all know too much of something is deadly.<br>
When surfing at a butterfly hotspot alone (or late at night),<br>
butterfly indecently gave me its all!! can u imagine!! that's very,<br>
very.... veeeryyy "tabia mbayaaa"....<br>
hebu imagine that i would clock 1.5mBps (megaBYTES, not megabits)!!<br>
JEEZ!! It was so much that it was my slow comp that was the<br>
bottle-neck � not the network!! and that's just wrong!!<br>
<br>
It made me feel really bad that KDN would mock my decade-old laptop<br>
with speeds that could have possibly killed it!! I mean.... how dare<br>
they!! ati 1.5mBps!!<br>
<br>
!!! NKT �!!!<br>
<br>
swift-global's speeds... sigh... their capped speeds mean that the<br>
average ebook or mp3 will take 20 minutes to download, giving me ample<br>
time to focus on more important things.... like family.... or other<br>
even more important things... like solving world poverty, or<br>
eradicating world hunger and famine, or helping the flowers in my<br>
garden cross-pollinate... or trolling on the skunkworks mailing<br>
list.... Very important things indeed!!<br>
<br>
and while I could stream at 720p or 1080p on butterfly, my comp could<br>
barely render the stream properly given its low specs.... but<br>
swift-globals cares for computers like mine, and cap their speeds to<br>
force me (and everyone else) to stream at 320p, which is good for my<br>
computer. Moreover, the capped speeds give me ample time to do other<br>
"important things" as I wait for the buffer to fill up! Kudos<br>
switf-global!!<br>
<br>
3) Butterfly had tech-smart staff in their tech-support department<br>
.... WTF!? who wants to call support and get a know-it-all geek on the<br>
other end who speaks gibberish!? How i'm I, a skunkworks troll,<br>
supposed to make sense of... "have you confirmed that your computer is<br>
configured to receive network configuration data via DHCP"... JEEZ!!<br>
what on earth does that mean?!<br>
.... well.... ok.... i guess the butterfly tech team knew what they<br>
were talking about, and they did resolve down-times within an hour or<br>
two.... or ten-minutes.<br>
and yes.... they appeared to be well trained...<br>
<br>
but jeez!! I like tech support people who speak my language... tech<br>
support who tell me to "turn you computer off, then turn it back on,<br>
then install a good antivirus, then wait 15 minutes before<br>
connecting."..... and thats the kind of support swift-global gives!!<br>
<br>
Seeeee!!!! ... I told you swift-global support is much better! and<br>
sometimes, when you call swift-global support a lot (i.e more than two<br>
times), you'll get to talk to a woman with ATT!! and thats so cool!! I<br>
know y'all like women when they're all fiesty n ferocious :-) i know i<br>
do, heheheheh<br>
<br>
�.. and that's another good reason why swift-global needs to be more<br>
expensive. That fiesty tech-support lady is obviously paid a lot of<br>
money!! that kind of customer-support service doesn't come cheap!!<br>
<br>
�.. in fact... I think I'll call support again once I email this :-D<br>
<br>
4) Butterfly was more reliable, with fewer downtimes...<br>
.... and that was a recipe for addiction to the internet!!<br>
Swift-global knows this, and that is why they let their downtimes last<br>
days on end. This also helps reduce global-warming, since computers<br>
produce less heat energy when they are not being used to browse ( or<br>
stream at 720p) � just ask any primary school science-teacher to<br>
verify this! and yes.. you guessed it... the down-times give me ample<br>
time to focus on important things....<br>
<br>
and butterfly was rude enough to encourage internet-addiction by<br>
maintaining their network!! jeez!!.... after swift-global took over,<br>
one of their �nodes� (a pole with lots of transmitters) was toppled<br>
over by strong winds, and stayed like that for months!!<br>
and the node i'm currently connected to has had perenial power issues<br>
for 1 and a half years.... kudos swift-global :-)!!<br>
<br>
... swift-global just knows how to run things.<br>
<br>
Earlier today, as I waited for a payment to go through on mabeshte<br>
(for five hours), I had ample time to do something important.... i.e.<br>
draft a solution for world-piece.<br>
<br>
And as I have penned it, the solution to world piece will start with<br>
swift-global handling the world's communications :-)... in fact,<br>
whoever named swift-global "swift-*global*" must have known this too!<br>
i bet he came up with the name after he got ample time to consider it<br>
during a down time :-)<br>
<br>
later guys.... the fiesty support-lady just picked up :-)<br>
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