Equitel mobile money is a fantastic service. On quality and usability it beats Mpesa hands down.

The only problem is that Memba's send money to Mpesa at a higher fee since most people havent registered. This makes money for Mpesa.

There are also very few paybill and Lipa na Equitel outlets. If they can reach a good threshold for outlets & paybills, then Mpesa will start having sleepless nights.

High Court blocks thin SIM technology roll-out

http://www.capitalfm.co....sim-technology-roll-out/

I think Equity are also not keen to promote this project even on the normal sim.

A case of underlings who are too afraid to tell Daktari "its impractical", "its technically impossible", "its not feasible"? I think so.
There are too many cases of senior leaders who will not hear NOs, and they lash out with volcanic fury at those saying it, dismissing them as stumbling blocks or negative or not seeing the big picture. Slick salesmen will sell you air, nothing is "impossible" to them and after you sign the dotted line, they move on to snare another unsuspecting businessman. The techies then crawl out of the woodwork and tell you a whole raft of things which are plain wishful thinking, but then its too late, you have paid and are tryinf to nurse a broken technology into a successful product.
Its important to listen to your own dull-sounding techies and evaluate their advice and not level them like an elephant to grass. They usually can see through polished salesmen's bullshit.
I will leave you now with this short, insightful and hilarious video:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg

Even the crowds are no more at the sim card registration counters.Highly unlikely they will kill it at the moment its just to wait and see what the next step will be