Safaricom has disabled a phone code that was being used to trade in Bonga Points by a Nairobi-based IT firm.
Onfon Media developed the code, *981*400#, that it was using to buy the loyalty points from Safaricom subscribers at Sh0.20 each and selling them for Sh0.35, hence earning a return of 75 per cent.
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There should be a healthy debate on whether doing this is the right thing to do by Safaricom and whether it is anti-innovation...
I for one wouldn't mind some cash event for my thousands of bonga points...:)
Ali Hussein
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"Kujikwaa si kuanguka, bali ni kwenda mbele" (To stumble is not to fall but a sign of going forward) - Swahili Proverb
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