murchr wrote:Angelica _ann wrote:Ericsson wrote:Safaricom is estimated to have lost sh.2.6bn during yesterday's outage.
Lost how?
The transaction and call fees you would have made yesterday plus the free sending via MPESA you are doing today = Lost Revenue
Incorrect. That is the volume of transactions, not revenue or profit. The money belongs to parties exchanging it, not Safaricom (save the small facilitation fees). If they had lost anything close to that amount it would mean they have yearly revenues of over 600 billion (approximately). That is a 3rd of Kenya's GDP. Implausible.
This is Wazua for God's sake, an economy/business minded forum, separation of obvious concepts like this should be self evident surely?