On 20 April 2015 at 11:56, Grace Mutung'u (Bomu) via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

Dear Listers, 

Other than the emotional value, what is in it for Kenyans with Mpesa "coming home"?

Hi Grace,

Someone has penned the following: http://goo.gl/yvooPb

However, from where I sit, I think it's just the sentimental/emotional value that's being peddled. It's Kenyan product (really?? Which Kenyan did it?) and it's been living in exile, but now we've brought it home! Okay, that sounds quite negative so let me add..

I hope that clients will never see/hear "M-Pesa is experiencing delays. Please wait for 10 minutes and try again". Item number 2 in the referenced article seemed to want to touch on issues like this, but it doesn't expressly say why we used to get such delays when the old (G-1) system didn't actually hit it's peak limit. So maybe it was an issue with Internet traffic delays to Germany, which is now eliminated from the equation by the local hosting of the servers.

Maybe this G-2 will be opened up for the other Telcos, something that has always been in contention. Item 3 in the referenced article wanted to talk about that, but ended up with unnecessary noise. Time will tell whether Safaricom will allow others to compete with it in its own platform.

Ni hayo tu kutoka kwangu.

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