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Now zain starts Zap - MPesa price war.
Rank: Elder Joined: 10/13/2009 Posts: 1,950 Location: in kenya
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According to todays newspaper Zap will be charging 10/= to send money across all networks. Now this is what I hav been waiting for Lets see how safaricom will respond to this threat. '......to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; 3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.' Colossians 2:2-3
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Rank: Member Joined: 11/21/2007 Posts: 152 Location: Nairobi
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A Good one.
However the catch is, you have to go to a Zap agent to withdraw.
The cash sent to u does not 'mix' with mpesa.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/17/2008 Posts: 23,365 Location: Nairobi
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....and how much do they charge to widhdraw???....the devil is one the details!!! ..."Wewe ni mtu mdogo sana....na mwenye amekuandika pia ni mtu mdogo sana!".
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Rank: Member Joined: 7/5/2008 Posts: 390
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Ilikeyou wrote:A Good one.
However the catch is, you have to go to a Zap agent to withdraw.
The cash sent to u does not 'mix' with mpesa. true, but you can use pesapoint, Posta ATMs, Housing Finance ATMs and many more bank ATMs (in addition to Zap agents) are being roped in!
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Rank: Member Joined: 4/15/2009 Posts: 371
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selah wrote:According to todays newspaper Zap will be charging 10/= to send money across all networks.
Now this is what I hav been waiting for Lets see how safaricom will respond to this threat. It has always been 10 bob ever since. Nothing has changed, this is just a popularization advert. By the way, Mpesa users can send money to any number in any network in Kenya.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 12/6/2008 Posts: 3,548
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Surely this leaves no margins for agents, just another dumb move as usual from Zain A New Kenya
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Rank: Member Joined: 5/27/2010 Posts: 324 Location: nrb
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Much Know wrote:Surely this leaves no margins for agents, just another dumb move as usual from Zain Yes, Mpesa is more about convenience to withdraw/deposit money. By the way how do zain agents(the end retailer breakeven? How much do they get from the 10sh.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 4/16/2010 Posts: 906 Location: Nairobi
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Much Know wrote:Surely this leaves no margins for agents, just another dumb move as usual from Zain so dumb. These razor thin margins are the reason Zap's distribution has been, and will always be zero compared to MPESA
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Rank: Member Joined: 9/21/2006 Posts: 422 Location: Nairobi
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...if none of you is an egent then we should not care what happens to the income of the service providers but the cost we incur when we send or receive money..thelower the cost the better..shida yenu ni nini?...remember we are able to make 3bob calls because of the "wars".. I wish the wasrs could be taken to the petroleium industry...we would be paying 60bob per litre of petrol..
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Rank: Member Joined: 7/31/2007 Posts: 341
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I think they wanted to take advantage of the Mpesa outage this weekend. Poor guys didn't know it was postponed
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Rank: Member Joined: 5/27/2010 Posts: 324 Location: nrb
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Layman wrote:...if none of you is an egent then we should not care what happens to the income of the service providers but the cost we incur when we send or receive money..thelower the cost the better..shida yenu ni nini?...remember we are able to make 3bob calls because of the "wars".. I wish the wasrs could be taken to the petroleium industry...we would be paying 60bob per litre of petrol.. it is only sensible to think about it. Remember the consumer has to bear the cost of a product. Even if you dont care, that cost will come out in one way or another. E.g imagine, zain suddenly collapses with all the mobiledeposits.
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Rank: Member Joined: 5/27/2010 Posts: 324 Location: nrb
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Reaally, @Layman,will you put your deposits into abank that you know is not adequately paying its employs, is making big losses that might bring it down any time(remember there is alimit to how much losses any firm can bear).
The telcoms are now operating in virtually all sense as banks in so far as deposittaking is concerned, yet the deposits are not properly regulated like banks.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 9/7/2010 Posts: 2,148 Location: elderville
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Much Know wrote:Surely this leaves no margins for agents, just another dumb move as usual from Zain  He who can express in words the ardour of his love, has but little love to express. - Petrach, Son. (That men by various ways arrive at the same end. - Montaigne, The Essays of.)
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Rank: Member Joined: 6/21/2010 Posts: 514 Location: Nairobi
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Very few agents will go near this, agents share charges with the provider thus how much can they make from this. Actually the biggest threat to Mpesa will be the orange platform. This is just but another naive loss making call from Zain 'They say money cannot buy me happiness but when i compare when i had none and now, i'm happier' Kevin O'leary
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Rank: User Joined: 1/30/2007 Posts: 104
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zain was simply informing all customers & potential customers that zap service will be running throughout the weekend, mpesa had said they will upgrade over the weekend, however this was canceled. No price war here, the charge for sending money has always been 10/
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/2/2009 Posts: 26,325 Location: Masada
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myson wrote:zain was simply informing all customers & potential customers that zap service will be running throughout the weekend, mpesa had said they will upgrade over the weekend, however this was canceled. No price war here, the charge for sending money has always been 10/ Yes, it has alway been 10 shillings and the number of Zap agents have always been tiny. Portfolio: Sold
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