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In random, I talk about anything and everything that catches my fancy.
KWFT testing microloan payments via mobile phone.
In today’s edition of the Business Daily, its been reported that the Kenya Womens Finance Trust (KWFT) is currently testing micro loan repayments from its loanees using Safaricom’s hugely popular M-Pesa service on mobile phones. The pilot, if viable, will be extended to most of KWFT’s branches in coming month’s.
Orange Kenya drops Internet Everywhere Modem Prices.
In today’s major newspapers are full page ads that indicate Orange Kenya has lowered its Internet Everywhere modem pricing significantly. More specifically, the Internet Everywhere modem price has been reduced from Kes. 4,400.00 to Kes. 2,999.00, which is slightly cheaper than Safaricom’s 3G modem. At the same time, the prepaid
Internet Marketing will disruptively re-invent the Kenyan Ad Agency (Part Two).
In the first part of this post, I was basically trying to describe what I see as the current status quo that the typical Kenyan Ad Agency is in the context of Internet Marketing. Basically, its not a pretty picture, but not totally bleak. Going forward, the way I see