Thanks Ali for sharing.I hope Safaricom will be able to take content to the mwananchi in less privillaged areas, something that Zuku has clearly refused to do. Zuku will only have themselves to blame if Safaricom gains marketshare in tripple play business given that Zuku were first-to-market, an advantage they have refused to capitalise on.
This is good competition, although Safaricom is now geered towards becoming a major monopoly in different sectors of ICTs given their financial muscle and wide coverage.
On 13 November 2013 22:40, Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke> wrote:ListersThis has been in the,works for a whole and now its a reality. I wonder how this will affect Zuku...Safaricom targets TV
Safaricom, Kenya’s biggest telco, plans to begin selling bundled Internet and TV services for on-demand viewing within the next 12 months, Chief Executive Officer Bob Collymore said.
“We will provide aggregation of content and delivery of content,” Collymore told Bloomberg. “Certainly within the year, we could be playing relatively prominently in that space.”
The bundles, available on devices including tablet computers, mobile phones and television sets, are aimed at tapping revenue streams beyond the company’s core voice service. Competition in Kenya’s telecommunications market three years ago triggered a price war, causing a sharp reduction in mobile-phone call rates that led companies to expand into new lines of data business to attract subscribers.
“We will become a content provider to several forms of media including TV stations and YouTube,” Collymore said, without providing more details. “People want to decide when they want to consume, they don’t want you to tell them. That immediacy is, I think, how the future will be defined.”
Sales growth from M-Pesa, Safaricom’s mobile phone money-transfer system, Internet and text-message services has outpaced revenue from voice for at least the past three years, according to the company’s latest annual report. Still, the share of revenue from phone calls was 60 per cent of total sales in the year through March versus about a third for non-voice.
http://advanced-television.com/2013/11/13/safricom-targets-tv/Ali Hussein+254 0770 906375 / 0713 601113"Kujikwaa si kuanguka, bali ni kwenda mbele" (To stumble is not to fall but a sign of going forward) - Swahili ProverbSent from my iPad
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