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Today's Topics:
1. Re: SPAM/OPT IN/OPT OUT MARKETING FROM THE TELCOS - DEATH BY
SMS (Brian Ngure)
2. Re: SPAM/OPT IN/OPT OUT MARKETING FROM THE TELCOS - DEATH BY
SMS (andrea.bohnstedt@ratio-magazine.com)
3. Re: SPAM/OPT IN/OPT OUT MARKETING FROM THE TELCOS - DEATH BY
SMS (Peter Owino)
4. Spain's Extremadura starts switch of 40, 000 government PCs
to open source (Evans Ikua)
5. Digital TV Migration: Local stations turnoff digital
transmission (robert yawe)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 15:17:17 +0300
From: Brian Ngure <brian@pixie.co.ke>
To: Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke>
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] SPAM/OPT IN/OPT OUT MARKETING FROM THE TELCOS
- DEATH BY SMS
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Hi,
I have just received Safaricom's advice to watch Pastor Tim this Sunday :)
I have written quite a number of emails to Safaricom customer care asking
to be removed from whatever mailing list they are using but have not
received a single response. Tried calling but could not past the IVR.
Surely, I should be asked first if I want to receive these sms messages,
yes? It is one of the requirements for the new SDP system they are making
PRSPs implement after all. Why should they break their own rules?
Perhaps CCK could implement a "Do Not Call" registry like in the USA (
https://www.donotcall.gov).
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke> wrote:
> Listers
>
> If you are like me you must by now be going out of your mind with useless
> SMS messages from the different players in the Telco sector.
>
> Is there some rule somewhere that CCK can dust off and ask them to stop
> sending these SMSs to 'abused' subscribers like myself.
>
> Or at the very least could you at least give us an option to Opt Out of
> this deluge of useless (in my opinion) SMSs?
>
> In my case I am specifically referring to Safaricom. I know that Safaricom
> has sophisticated Mass Customisation tools and if they use their Analytic
> Tools they would have known that for a Muslim (assuming in the majority of
> cases they would make deductions by name usage) a message that reads:-
>
> *'Watch Pastor Tim's Sunday Sermon...' *
>
> is particularly useless for a Muslim. If I were a Conspiracy Theorist
> (Luckily I am not. :-)) I may start making assumptions that Safaricom wants
> to convert me to a Christian.
>
> Dear Safaricom, please give me an option to opt out of your SMS deluge..
>
> Death by SMS :-)
>
>
> *Ali Hussein*
>
> *CEO, 3mice interactive media ltd*
>
> *Partner, Telemedia Africa Ltd
> *
>
>
>
> Tel: +254713601113
>
> Twitter: @AliHKassim
>
> Skype: abu-jomo
>
> LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim<http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim>
>
> Blog: www.alyhussein.com
>
>
> Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are purely
> mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the
> organizations that I work with.
>
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 02 May 2013 12:12:17 +0000
From: <andrea.bohnstedt@ratio-magazine.com>
To: <adam@varud.com>
Cc: kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke
Subject: Re: [kictanet] SPAM/OPT IN/OPT OUT MARKETING FROM THE TELCOS
- DEATH BY SMS
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Yes, Kenya does, but I don't want to switch operators. I want my current providers to stop spamming me.
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Sent from my Nokia phone
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From: Adam Nelson <adam@varud.com>
To: "Andrea Bohnstedt" <andrea.bohnstedt@ratio-magazine.com>
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013 2:04:27 PM GMT+0200
Subject: Re: [kictanet] SPAM/OPT IN/OPT OUT MARKETING FROM THE TELCOS - DEATH BY SMS
On a related note, does Kenya have phone number portability so that people
can just switch carriers. I personally think structural solutions like
that are better than regulatory ones like banning SMS alerts (although I
would certainly be in favor of that too).
In the US, one can switch a phone number to another carrier in under an
hour.
https://twitter.com/varud
https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamcnelson
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Andrea Bohnstedt <
andrea.bohnstedt@ratio-magazine.com> wrote:
> I have - slightly laboriously - managed to get myself unsubscribed from
> Airtel's permanent (and sometimes badly spelled and edited) text messages
> by contacting someone in the firm I knew. But since then, Safcom's
> messaging has really picked up, so if there's anyone on this list has a
> contact (or an automated mechanism) to opt out, I'd also like to know.
>
> Plus any way of preventing the Safaricom dongle from automatically opening
> their bundles website?
>
>
> On 2 May 2013 14:38, Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke> wrote:
>
>> Listers
>>
>> If you are like me you must by now be going out of your mind with useless
>> SMS messages from the different players in the Telco sector.
>>
>> Is there some rule somewhere that CCK can dust off and ask them to stop
>> sending these SMSs to 'abused' subscribers like myself.
>>
>> Or at the very least could you at least give us an option to Opt Out of
>> this deluge of useless (in my opinion) SMSs?
>>
>> In my case I am specifically referring to Safaricom. I know that
>> Safaricom has sophisticated Mass Customisation tools and if they use their
>> Analytic Tools they would have known that for a Muslim (assuming in the
>> majority of cases they would make deductions by name usage) a message that
>> reads:-
>>
>> *'Watch Pastor Tim's Sunday Sermon...' *
>>
>> is particularly useless for a Muslim. If I were a Conspiracy Theorist
>> (Luckily I am not. :-)) I may start making assumptions that Safaricom wants
>> to convert me to a Christian.
>>
>> Dear Safaricom, please give me an option to opt out of your SMS deluge..
>>
>> Death by SMS :-)
>>
>>
>> *Ali Hussein*
>>
>> *CEO, 3mice interactive media ltd*
>>
>> *Partner, Telemedia Africa Ltd
>> *
>>
>>
>>
>> Tel: +254713601113
>>
>> Twitter: @AliHKassim
>>
>> Skype: abu-jomo
>>
>> LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim<http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim>
>>
>> Blog: www.alyhussein.com
>>
>>
>> Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are purely
>> mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the
>> organizations that I work with.
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> kictanet mailing list
>> kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke
>> https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet
>>
>> Unsubscribe or change your options at
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>>
>> The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform
>> for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and
>> regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT
>> sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development.
>>
>> KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors
>> online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth,
>> share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do
>> not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Andrea Bohnstedt <http://ke.linkedin.com/in/andreabohnstedt>
> Publisher
>
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> www.africa-assets.com
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> for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and
> regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT
> sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development.
>
> KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors
> online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth,
> share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do
> not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
>
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 12:18:42 +0000
From: "Peter Owino" <mpodhiambo@yahoo.com>
To: "Ali Hussein" <ali@hussein.me.ke>, "kictanet"
<kictanet-bounces+mpodhiambo=yahoo.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] SPAM/OPT IN/OPT OUT MARKETING FROM THE TELCOS
- DEATH BY SMS
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+1 Ali
I've just received it too! Wondered when I subscribed!
Sent from my BlackBerry?
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 16:47:42 +0300
From: Evans Ikua <ikua.evans@gmail.com>
To: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Subject: [kictanet] Spain's Extremadura starts switch of 40, 000
government PCs to open source
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"The government of Spain's autonomous region of Extremadura has begun the
switch to open source of it desktop PCs. The government expects the
majority of its 40,000 PCs to be migrated this year, the region's CIO
Theodomir Cayetano announced on 18 April. Extremadura estimates that the
move to open source will help save 30 million euro per year."
Read more here:
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/spains-extremadura-starts-switch-40000-government-pcs-open-source
*My estimation that for every 300 dollars of my tax money that the
Government spends on MS Office licensing, 250 dollars is wasted.*
--
*----------------------------------------------------
Kind Regards,
Evans Ikua,*
lanetconsulting.com,
lpi-eastafrica.org,
ict-innovation.fossfa.net,
Twitter: @ikuae
Cell: +254-722-955831
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 15:35:49 +0100 (BST)
From: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk>
To: Kictanet Mail list <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
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Subject: [kictanet] Digital TV Migration: Local stations turnoff
digital transmission
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Hi,
Thought the share some new developments in the Digital Migration issues, as of last Saturday all the local TV stations except for KBC and family have disconnected their channel feed over the digital frequency.
I believe this is to enforce the recent demand by the Media Owners Association? to be issued with a digital TV distribution license which is likely to slowdown the migration and also the roll out of LTE.
(http://www.cofek.co.ke/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1552:kneya-media-owners-demand-third-digital-signal-licence-&catid=1:latest-news)
As of this posting over 1,000,000 consumers (COFEK), spread across the country, of the Startimes service do not have access to the local TV channels some are situated in areas that only received the KBC channels.
If this is how the private sector intends to arm twist the government into getting their way then as a nation we are in trouble, this action is jeopardizing a second foreign investors investment in the digital TV space.
We have got to this situation all because of the meddling in a process by COFEK therefore I expect them to be on the streets tomorrow demanding that the signal be reinstated with immediate effect.
?
Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
Kenya
Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
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