<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Kivuva</div><div><br></div><div>On the contrary..you will be surprised how far zuku has penetrated the rural areas..in my home counties of Kilifi and Mombasa (Yes, I have dual citizenship) :) I'm impressed how far they have gone in getting content there..something that the other Telcos have clearly not achieved. We hope that the Universal Access Fund will be able to achieve.</div><div><br><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);">Ali Hussein</span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">+254 0770 906375 / 0713 601113</div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">"Kujikwaa si kuanguka, bali ni kwenda mbele" (To stumble is not to fall but a sign of going forward) - Swahili Proverb</span></div><div><br></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Nov 14, 2013, at 8:36 AM, Kivuva <<a href="mailto:Kivuva@transworldafrica.com">Kivuva@transworldafrica.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><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><br>
</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">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><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<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>
<div><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">+254 0770 906375 / 0713 601113</div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>"Kujikwaa si kuanguka, bali ni kwenda mbele" (To stumble is not to fall but a sign of going forward) - Swahili Proverb</span></div>
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