M-Pesa scooped yet another award this to add to its large cabinet of awards. The Best Mobile Money Service Award was handed to Safaricom for M-Pesa’s success and innovative penetration to the market. M-Pesa has received quite a number of awards since its inception and served over 5 million Kenyans in the last year alone.
For a man like Michael Joseph who according to me is a strategist who knows what steps to take and when to do it, it appears rather unfair that competitors might face easier terms to roll out 3G services within the country.
I have to say this, you never know what you have til you do not have it anymore. Good customer service is one of the things we take for granted and sincerely, it takes quite a lot to achieve it. A while ago calling Safaricom customer service was really hard and if you got through, you would stay on hold for quite some time. That seems to have changed for the better and I can stand and testify on behalf of Safaricom.
Kenyans are known to be fast and enterprising and when better internet speeds get more accessible and available online creatives crop up bigger than ever before. I have seen more online applications and networks come up in Kenya in the last 5 months than I have seen in the whole of 4 years before that [...]
Safaricom and Equity bank have moved a step higher to strengthen their working relationship by introducing new ATM withdraw for M-Pesa through the Equity Bank ATM network. Equity Bank, Kenya’s largest bank in the aspect of account holders joins hand with Kenya’s largest money transfer service. Currently, M-Pesa has over 8 million users while Equity [...]
Well, the ever growing unlimited email storage on google is now a thing of the past. You still have your free account but now you need to pay for anything above 20GB. The plans are between $5 and $256 per year although the storage is quite big compared to other services. Below is the pricing [...]
Being a web developer for more than 8 years has taught me quite a number of things and given me some experiences that I am not sure I want to witness in the near future while at the same time its given me quite a lot to learn and use in the future. One of [...]
You might have noticed that today most women/girls have colors as their Facebook Updates. Red, White, Blue, Black, Pitch, Cream, Pink…name it, all there and it got me wondering what is happening. Its a beautiful thing that people from all walks of life are using social media for Breast Cancer awareness.
Its a good initiative and [...]
If you are web/mobile application developer in Africa, you have a great chance to win the $125,000 set aside for African developers by Nokia and get to sell your product on the Ovi store.
“We’re inviting all mobile and web application developers to create best-in-class applications to run on Nokia devices. This competition is aimed at [...]
About 7 years ago, I managed to get a dial-up connection in my house. It was a great feeling, probably greater than I felt when I first made a 3G connection in Nairobi a about 2007. Internet at home was a privileged. An expensive one and the connection was really slow but by the standards [...]
