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muganda
#1 Posted : Wednesday, April 20, 2011 7:44:48 PM
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Yep, I see Safaricom has introduced this new data plan. Instead of 8/= per MB, you pay 2/= per minute your online.

And BobCollymore on Twitter, speaks thus:
Would welcome your views on our new 2/- per minute data billing designed for the casual browsing data user.


So what's your take? To me it appears more expensive. Ooops! isn't this so telling, it always boils down to price:

Normal User
At this moment, I've been on for 30mins and downloaded 20MBs.
Cost 26/= at 1.33 per MB
New cost 60/= at 2/= per minute

Heavy User
Safaricom allows average download of 1000kbps overnight torrenting coming to a max of say 450MB downloaded per hour.
Cost 441/= at 0.98 per MB
New cost 120/= at 2/= per minute
(equation may not hold if you average 250kbps)

If you are a heavy user, it could be worth considering. Definitely not for the light mobile user - things are never what they seem.

http://afrinnovator.com/mobile/...internet-browsing-tariff
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QW25071985
#2 Posted : Wednesday, April 20, 2011 8:00:34 PM
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WTF . 2.00/= bob per minute when cybercafes in town are charging 0.50 ( some even 0.25 cents) per minute .i can just cheaply pop into any cybercafe and do my stufff and bounce. BURE...Tell boby calless to take this silly data plan back to his dog house..Bure kabisa. Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly
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muganda
#3 Posted : Wednesday, April 20, 2011 8:05:54 PM
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Oooh by the way QW, new Synovate trend shows these stats:

Where do you access Internet form?

On my phone....65%
Cybercafe....49%
Home.....22%
Work....19%
School......13%

http://afrinnovator.com/wp-cont...uploads/ScreenClip24.png
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Drew
#4 Posted : Wednesday, April 20, 2011 9:41:53 PM
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safaricom always has a catch. The catch here is that u don't download at 3G speeds, I'm getting not more than 150 kbps.
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QW25071985
#5 Posted : Wednesday, April 20, 2011 10:12:57 PM
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muganda wrote:
Oooh by the way QW, new Synovate trend shows these stats:

Where do you access Internet form?

On my phone....65%
Cybercafe....49%
Home.....22%
Work....19%
School......13%

http://afrinnovator.com/wp-cont...uploads/ScreenClip24.png



Mind you those people who use their mobile phones most are those who facebook and tweet. mostly the teenagers/young adults.Most of them stuck to safaricom because it was cheap to do what they know how to do best facebook and twitter.So this data package i dnt know who its addressed to because young adults are very price contious.This is a pure flop right from the word start.
I am yet to see a large pop of these teenagers spend over 60 bob just to facebook or tweet...
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Jus Blazin
#6 Posted : Thursday, April 21, 2011 11:14:48 AM
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It's good we have such kinds of options. Like someone said, it depends with the kind of user you are. Some are heavy users who prefer the bundles, other heavy users would see this as a bargain. For the light users, you dont have to use it. Its an option, like the many others, which helps address the needs of the various segments in the data market.
Luck is when Preparation meets Opportunity. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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KenyanLyrics
#7 Posted : Thursday, April 21, 2011 12:07:44 PM
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Not yet Uhuru. We want affordable unlimited packages
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aydenjason
#8 Posted : Thursday, April 21, 2011 7:37:08 PM
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Cmon! At ths cruial moment. Saf cn do beta than ths! Aaaarg!
Namukhaywa: walk by me & ill take u thea.
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Salesman
#9 Posted : Thursday, April 21, 2011 10:34:28 PM
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Pray we r jst gettin in2 1st holiday season of 2011, oil prices up thru tha roof, unga missin on shelves, stocks doing miserable, idps chased like dogs, ocampo doing wat he hates 2 lov most, Baks considerin 3rd term, collymore lockin portd nos and now internet @ 2bob in this day n age! Phew!! This folk has jst startd messing up 1 of kenya's greatest asset. Tafadhali, tafadhali, anybody thea 2 adv this dude 2 go asap. Let him nt wait 4 easter 2 end. Hata kama i watch live videos online, THIS IS A BIG SHIT!
Peperusha barua to rls.nbo@gmail.com
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Cde Monomotapa
#10 Posted : Friday, April 22, 2011 7:06:18 AM
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KenyanLyrics wrote:
Not yet Uhuru. We want affordable unlimited packages

Ushasema! Aluta continua comrades!
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Burning Spear
#11 Posted : Thursday, April 28, 2011 7:01:41 PM
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will this offer to some of us who use data phones,coz the deal sounds like for these other lower market phones
"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it". Malcolm X
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YesuWangu
#12 Posted : Friday, April 29, 2011 1:06:24 PM
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Jus Blazin wrote:
It's good we have such kinds of options. Like someone said, it depends with the kind of user you are. Some are heavy users who prefer the bundles, other heavy users would see this as a bargain. For the light users, you dont have to use it. Its an option, like the many others, which helps address the needs of the various segments in the data market.



Yes. But it is being marketed to catch all and sundry, not only the 'heavy' users.
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