<div dir="ltr">I tend to think that the openness in question here is here is not about technology but processes.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Ngeno,Titus <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:titus.ngeno@gmail.com" target="_blank">titus.ngeno@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">"Open access" is a loaded word ...does anyone out there knows the architecture of mpesa platform? If yes does it supports universal standards?...For all we know, you may be asking too much of safaricom.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Aug 1, 2013 5:32 AM, "Walubengo J" <<a href="mailto:jwalu@yahoo.com" target="_blank">jwalu@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><div>@Ali,</div><div><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">
Funny how Equity is thinking like me below...exactly my idea about "unbundling" MPESA.� It should be "open-access" and I dont see how that would affect Safcom intellectual property rights to MPESA.� It as about inter-operability - think "Mobile Phone Inter-connection" agreements where competing operators interconnect at a fee that is settled regularly.</div>
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Perhaps if this open-access model to MPESA was available, we would not have Posta-Kenya trying to re-invent the wheel and CS Matiangi /Govt trying to create another monopoly in this space.</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">
<br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">walu.<br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">
~~~</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">Read on..</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">
<br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">Equity Bank has hit criticised Safaricom over its continued refusal
to open up the M-Pesa platform to enable its users transact business
with other mobile money networks.� The commercial bank said this has kept the cost of mobile money
transaction high and may hinder further growth in the mobile commerce in
Kenya.</div>
<div><br></div><div>�Equity Bank joins the other mobile operators, Airtel and Essar
Telecom, who have been pushing for cross network operations in mobile
money business.� "Financial services by nature should be inter-operable,� said John
Staley, chief officer for finance, innovation and technology at Equity.�� "Kenya has not seen much of this as one of the operators has tried as much as possible to be on a closed loop,"Stanley said.</div><div><br>
</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">From..<br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">
<a href="http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-130261/equity-says-m-pesa-lines-should-be-open" target="_blank">http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-130261/equity-says-m-pesa-lines-should-be-open</a></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">
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