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Now zain starts Zap - MPesa price war.
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selah
#1 Posted : Friday, November 12, 2010 11:56:06 AM
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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.
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Ilikeyou
#2 Posted : Friday, November 12, 2010 1:28:02 PM
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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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McReggae
#3 Posted : Friday, November 12, 2010 1:32:26 PM
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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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Apple Bees
#4 Posted : Friday, November 12, 2010 1:46:21 PM
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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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Caveman
#5 Posted : Friday, November 12, 2010 1:56:36 PM
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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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Much Know
#6 Posted : Friday, November 12, 2010 1:59:25 PM
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Surely this leaves no margins for agents, just another dumb move as usual from Zain
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alikujia
#7 Posted : Friday, November 12, 2010 2:52:04 PM
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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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KenyanLyrics
#8 Posted : Friday, November 12, 2010 3:08:16 PM
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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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Layman
#9 Posted : Friday, November 12, 2010 3:53:31 PM
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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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chris79
#10 Posted : Friday, November 12, 2010 4:46:49 PM
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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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