Impunity wrote:jgithige wrote:Safaricom needs a serious competitor to bring the cost of mpesa rates down. Similarly to what happened in call rates.
Me thinks the rates that needed to be urgently checked and brought down ni za data bandoz.
That 4G thing inanyonya kweli kweli kushinda wale poko za River road.
Try downloading a 4 minute youtube video and before you know it 100MB imemozwo tu like that.
Safaricom data is not too bad even when compared to international standards. The only thing missing is unlimited internet offerings, but those you can get with Zuku. If you want to pressure Safaricom into changing their internet offerings then embrace Zuku and make your use of bundles minimal.
Where Safaricom is milking these immoral profits from is the following band of MPESA transactions:
These are the typical Wanjiku transfers and in terms of percentages, they are obscene. The highest being a 50 bob withdrawal, which draws a bloody 20% commission from Safaricom(10bob) and this adds up very fast. In an advanced economy we would have consumer protection from such usury and agitation for uniform charges across the board, but in Kenya the only thing you can do is buy Safaricom shares so that you are on the right side of the table when people are eating.