Bobby,<br><br>Have you verified before hand if there isn't some scheduled maintenance going on? If not so, then I guess we don't have good enough techies in this "vision 3020" country.<br><br>I paid my Electricity Bill by M-Pesa in the morning today and I haven't received the confirmation from KPLC systems, though they had implemented this some time back!<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 08:24, robert yawe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span>Hi,</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span>The KPLC prepaid system for purchasing tokens using mpesa has been down since midday on 6th March 2012 now that is an issue to be discussed in detail as opposed to the 2 day a year incidents with KNEC.</span></div>
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<span><br></span></div><div><span><font>The inability of KPLC and Safaricom, 2 of the largest listed companies in the country, to resolve the persistent issues with the system reflects very badly on us as a body of ICT experts.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font><br></font></span></div><div><span><font>This issue waters down the excitement of another Kenyan developer being </font></span><b style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13px">fêted </b><span style="font-size:13px">for yet another mobile application, could it be that we are only destined to offer client facing solution and lack the skills or dedication to handle the critical backend?</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px">Our reputations are at stage it is time we dug into this issue and provide a long lasting solution.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px">Regards</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Robert Yawe<br>
KAY System Technologies Ltd<br>Phoenix House,
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