VituVingiSana wrote:@djinn - Since the price cuts I have upped my use of data. I buy Safaricom Bundle for 'fast' use + 990/week from Orange... Slower...
Sometimes, I will even jump onto free wifi at Dormans or Java...
Communications is the biggest beneficiary as 'voice' is carried as data over these cables... I am not certain but it would not surprise me that the 3/- calls to India/USA/China are carried through undersea cables... Well, part of the way...
Absolutely true abt the 3 bob calls - and its sad that Uganda are dragging their feet (rather mired in some scandal relating to their terrestrial fibre - KDN has gone up to tororo and Telkom up to Malaba - but no corresponding pipe to connect to on the other side - so when you call Kampala your call goes through satellite (or microwave) - thus it costs more.
Lets look at this another way...if Safaricom were to post the same VOICE revenues in 2011...given the prices are now HALVED - they would have to double their subscriber base from abt 14m to 28m....with Zain, Yu and Orange focusing on rural areas...its very unlikely that SCOM can see 100% growth in subscribers in one year. Voice still accounts for abt 75-80% of revenues (I guess). So the next cash cow (rather calf) is data - this is a meal no one really knows how to serve but imagines everyone would like to eat.
Continued growth of mobile money may help mitigate losses to voice but there is only so far we can go with that. Only so far.
BTW has anyone used m-kesho yet?