<div dir="ltr">it will not be surprising to see Airtel gamble in this "new" space as for Zuku, I'm a little disappointed by their slow approach to taking advantage of their unique offering, zuku may not have services in the low income areas but the service is also not available in some parts of Karen, Ngong road side but is available one th Langata side. I recall applying for triple play in 2008 and subsequently in 2010 and the best answer I got was we shall cover your area next year! In not too long JTL will easily start offering triple play services not that I have heard anything but... with that said Safaricom we wait to see your offering :)<div>
<br>SammyG</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Kivuva <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Kivuva@transworldafrica.com" target="_blank">Kivuva@transworldafrica.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks Ali for sharing.<br>This is good competition, although Safaricom is now geered towards becoming a major monopoly in different sectors of ICTs given their financial muscle and wide coverage.<br>
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</div>I hope Safaricom will be able to take content to the mwananchi in less privillaged areas, something that Zuku has clearly refused to do. Zuku will only have themselves to blame if Safaricom gains marketshare in tripple play business given that Zuku were first-to-market, an advantage they have refused to capitalise on.<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On 13 November 2013 22:40, Ali Hussein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke" target="_blank">ali@hussein.me.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br></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 dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div><span>Listers</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>This has been in the,works for a whole and now its a reality. I wonder how this will affect Zuku...</span></div>
<div><h1 style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm"><font size="3"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Safaricom targets TV<u></u><u></u></span></font></h1><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Safaricom, Kenya’s biggest telco, plans to begin selling bundled Internet and TV services for on-demand viewing within the next 12 months, Chief Executive Officer Bob Collymore said.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“We will provide aggregation of content and delivery of content,” Collymore told Bloomberg. “Certainly within the year, we could be playing relatively prominently in that space.”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The bundles, available on devices including tablet computers, mobile phones and television sets, are aimed at tapping revenue streams beyond the company’s core voice service. Competition in Kenya’s telecommunications market three years ago triggered a price war, causing a sharp reduction in mobile-phone call rates that led companies to expand into new lines of data business to attract subscribers.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“We will become a content provider to several forms of media including TV stations and YouTube,” Collymore said, without providing more details. “People want to decide when they want to consume, they don’t want you to tell them. That immediacy is, I think, how the future will be defined.”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Sales growth from M-Pesa, Safaricom’s mobile phone money-transfer system, Internet and text-message services has outpaced revenue from voice for at least the past three years, according to the company’s latest annual report. Still, the share of revenue from phone calls was 60 per cent of total sales in the year through March versus about a third for non-voice.</span></p>
</div><div><span><a href="http://advanced-television.com/2013/11/13/safricom-targets-tv/" target="_blank">http://advanced-television.com/2013/11/13/safricom-targets-tv/</a></span><br><br><div><span>Ali Hussein</span></div>
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