Safaricom, the leading mobile network operator in Kenya, has launched yet another innovative idea: a pre-paid VISA card that users can load funds to using their mobile phones. Dubbed the “PrePay Safari Card”, the product  is a partnership between I&M Bank and Safaricom’s highly applauded M-PESA money transfer service. According to Bob Collymore, Safaricom’s CEO,
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Vodacom, the largest mobile phone network operator in South Africa, has announced the launch of M-PESA in South Africa. This is in the hope that the mobile money transfer service will have an equally phenomenal success in South Africa as it did in Kenya. Vodacom have partnered with Nedbank to bring the product to the
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Ushindi Mobile Money is now the latest entrant in Kenya’s growing mobile money transfer sub-sector. The service is the brainchild of “Heart for the City”, a christian charity organization based in Scotland but whose founder and CEO is Kenyan. This new system runs on the web and requires a java enabled mobile phone with GPRS
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