Great discussion.Last mile is all about connectivity. Not too sure the ROI for a card by safaricom who already have a vibrant agent network, sticky or loyal customers. Today only there are 2-4% transactions on card.The question is what are they trying to solve with this initiative as we also do not event have a wide spread of ATMs.In my personal opinion this is a step back, I think they really need to rethink on this, but they should look at improving the experience on Mpesa.There are many applicable technologies, the last mile connect is the problem Safaricom has solved, but to build into the network of expensive PDQ machines does make sense if you have already replaced them with a $10 - $15 unit.Wow.. What a step back Safaricom please rethink, reset otherwise carry on.Thanks,Best Regards,BaijuNFC relies on an entire ecosystem. Phones, PDQS/POS terminals are part of it.
I said a long time ago that mobile payments would only be global via a standard based technology like NFC Vs a vendor driven service such as mpesa.
I am happy to see Safaricom is now ready to support the standard based approach to mobile payments too.
On Jul 22, 2016 10:07 AM, "Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:On Jul 22, 2016 6:51 AM, "Ali Hussein via kictanet" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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> Grace
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> Good point. Definitely food for thought. I'm sure Mpesa has a reason to go back to cards when the very nature of mobile money is card less.Ali, how I understood it is that if your phone is NFC enabled, you would not need the card. You would just swipe the phone. Again, the card is helpful when you are outside network coverage area, like when you travel abroad.
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> This will definitely be something to watch keenly.
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> On Jul 22, 2016 6:46 AM, "Grace Mutung'u (Bomu) via kictanet" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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>> I wonder if the card will be as fees free to the customer as visa. Therein, would be an advantage. For now there are times when paying through M-pesa is charged and it is quite inconvenient to send an SMS to find out the charges.
>> But the bigger question would be whether this the real future or the full potential of mobile money vis a vis Blockchains...
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>> On 21 Jul 2016 9:28 p.m., "Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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>>> @Barrack,
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>>> Imagine just running your NFC phone, or Card at the Point of Sale and your purchase is done. Instead of the current method where you have to go to an MPESA menu, chose paybill/till, enter paybill number, enter the amount, enter pin, confirm, wait for SMS ....
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>>> I expect also you can use the card while abroad ...
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>>> Choice is good.
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>>>> @ Wash,
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>>>> I wonder if it will add any value.
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