<p>You can pay using Debit cards from Equity, KCB, Cooperative or National (VISA). The issie is that most of these which are standard ATMs are normally disabled for online use by dedault due to fraud issues arising from low user awareness of what their cards can be up to. You can call the cardcentre to enable the card though, temporarily or permanently. </p>
<p>As for WhatsApp, guess they do not understand how the card market works in developing countries, hence their oversight. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 29, 2012 7:53 AM, "Cecilia Matanga" <<a href="mailto:cecilia@parliaments.info">cecilia@parliaments.info</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Dear all<br>
<br>
I had a very interesting conversation with my mum yesterday, she<br>
wanted to know how she can purchase the whatsapp service since her<br>
free trial expires in two weeks time. She says from her handset there<br>
are 2 options google wallet and paypal. Of course she has no idea what<br>
both are to start with.<br>
<br>
I don't know how many of you are using this app. But in my village its<br>
becoming a popular application with most people having changed<br>
handsets to ensure they have whatsapp enabled ones. The reason being<br>
its cheaper to send messages using whatsapp. Actually the other day I<br>
heard the radio DJ asking people to whatsapp their opinions too!<br>
<br>
As of yesterday most profile status changed to 'error: user<br>
unavailable'. This has caused so much panic in the whatsapp community<br>
and I am sure if you are on whatsapp you have by now received this<br>
chain email asking you to send to 18 users to prove you are an active<br>
user.<br>
<br>
Based on those two incidents, I am wondering is there a defined model<br>
of payment for this service taking into account that most users do not<br>
have paypal, Google wallet or even a credit card. Most of us have been<br>
buying data bundles so we can access this application( and I am sure<br>
contributing a lot to the internet usage statistics). Now with these<br>
expiration looming has anyone thought of assisting those who may have<br>
the USD$2 to purchase the service.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
--<br>
Cecilia Matanga<br>
Programme Officer<br>
Africa i-Parliaments Action Plan<br>
UNDESA<br>
Nairobi - Kenya<br>
Mobile : <a href="tel:%2B254-718568154" value="+254718568154">+254-718568154</a><br>
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