Many countries have been impressed by the uptake of mobile banking in Kenya. That has made the countries so much admire the service and want to implement it. In August 2010, Vodacom South Africa launched the service. Now Pieter Uys, Vodacom group CEO, says that M-Pesa has failed to live up to Vodacom’s expectations in SA.
Mr Uys says that Vodacom has registered “over” 100 000 M-Pesa clients in South Africa since its launch. This is not what Vodacom expected. At the launch last year, Vodacom say it expected to register not less than 10m M-Pesa customers within three years. That figure was ambitious since South Africa has 13 Million unbanked.
In Tanzania, M-Pesa has 1,5m active and 7m registered users. Safaricom has close to 13 Million clients in M-Pesa. Mr Uys says that maybe the better banking environment in SA has led to this.
Vodacom CEO still “strongly believe” that M-Pesa will make a great impact in South Africa. Vodacom CEO, Mr Uys, says the company is making some changes to M-Pesa which will make it gain traction in SA. The service was launched in SA in partnership with NedBank.
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As long as we like it here in Kenya……
As long as we like it here in Kenya……
M-Pesa is used by all – banked or unbanked
M-Pesa is used by all – banked or unbanked
subscriber have to have ‘peculiar’ habits for m-pesa to be successful
subscriber have to have ‘peculiar’ habits for m-pesa to be successful
to be more attractive in SA, perhaps they need to introduce features like – paying DSTV via mpesa, paying electricity bills, shopping, fuel, airtime etc, just like it is in kenya.
to be more attractive in SA, perhaps they need to introduce features like – paying DSTV via mpesa, paying electricity bills, shopping, fuel, airtime etc, just like it is in kenya.
to be more attractive in SA, perhaps they need to introduce features like – paying DSTV via mpesa, paying electricity bills, shopping, fuel, airtime etc, just like it is in kenya.
to be more attractive in SA, perhaps they need to introduce features like – paying DSTV via mpesa, paying electricity bills, shopping, fuel, airtime etc, just like it is in kenya.
it was a wrong business decision really. Business does not work like science where “pie” is “pie” and will give about the same results worldwide! they missed this one big time
it was a wrong business decision really. Business does not work like science where “pie” is “pie” and will give about the same results worldwide! they missed this one big time
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