True that. Majority of users are in Kenya. For now. Would really be interesting to see how this affects the plans to go global especially if they want to tap into the remittances business and Vodafone has global ambitions for Mpesa...

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On Apr 21, 2015, at 9:41 AM, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

Majority of the customers are in Kenya, the logic of keeping traffic
local as Phares has explained makes sense.

Regards

On 4/21/15, Ahmed Mohamed Maawy via kictanet
<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
I think the broader issue here is Safaricom is a Kenyan company - based in
Kenya. And the servers were in the UK. That is what all this is about.

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 9:28 AM, simiyu mse via kictanet <
kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

Is this to say the system is not being future proofed with the intent
to go global, since in this case the physical location of said servers
should not be an issue.

When it comes to cost, i believe any internet traffic cost savings
will be translated to the maintainance and running of the local tier 2
data centers set up for this infrastructure. Am sure they are running
more than one for this.

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