Equity already finances (Nairobi) City Hall so expect those services to be on Equitel's MVNO menu. Add Muranga [Equity's birthplace or at least where JM is from]. And there are many counties that love Equity and will allow the services to be paid via Equitel.

KPLC, DSTV, Zuku are businesses (who need not have Equity accounts) who will accept anyone as an agent as long as it is price-efficient. No-one wants to open payment offices that cost them a lot to maintain.

Add every Equity financed SME to accept Lipa Na Ekwetee!

Geez!!! Kenyans and their damn goggles! Even in an intellectual discourse one has to go tribal?? Poor Kenya!!

Simple fact: There are no known/reported/recorded issues with the thin sim and therefore as of now, there is no basis to block Equity from using them!! Even my [almost] five year old daughter can understand that!!

And the Green elephant is not relenting.
Safaricom sounds warning to users of Equity’s thin SIM.

Pitched debate battle ...I like this. One of the rare sober threads around here,..I wonder if strategists from both companies are following this?

CAK and CBK have given Safaricom a lifeline. 1 year in the technology industry is huge; you only have 3 months of first mover advantage in this industry especially where mobile technology is concerned. If Safaricom are bright, and surely they are, they will come up with something to counter this. They are already talking to KCB and Post Bank to explore a response to Equity.

Looking at it from the banking industry, the other banks are running scared more than Safaricom. There are about 200k mobile banking users in the entire industry. Assuming a conversion rate of as low as 10%, Equity will already have more than 4x mobile banking/payments users than the entire market. The cost savings, revenues from transaction fees, increased deposits will give Equity such a significant edge that the other banks just cannot compete with. No wonder the other banks are busy headhunting at Mpesa.

Equity's Achilles Heel will be their technology model. They have handled technology very badly since they started, what with CBS being down, ATMs not working, EAZZY247 being crap etc. You would hope that they have learnt a lesson and will not make silly blunders. Ask KCB and CfCStanbic how much they have lost because of silly technology mistakes.

These companies are not mandated to take responsibility for such loss. On the other hand, financial institutions are REQUIRED to take responsibility of client's money. For one, CBK REQUIRES financial institution - including Safcom/Mpesa to insure client's money to the tune of 100,000/=. They can't unilaterally seek to selectively ignore that directive without inviting CBK's wrath!

Who is driving kenyas economy?who are the most c.e.os in the country and serious business guys?answer yourself and parting shot equity has all the goodwill to execute this plan,in Africa we only compete with southafrica which has already embraced thin sim so we are behind technology go equity go

If internet has not been stopped because of hackers there is no way hacking will lead to technology stop we will deal with the criminal just like other fraud cases which are very many even in mpesa

Word on the ground is Safcom have contacted their mother Vodafone to come up with their own thin SIM.

A dominant player doesn't need a thin sim,its an underdog who needs a thin sim to ride on the dominant sim to pull the dominance down