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Looks like the people at Zain are determined to reign the telecommunication industry and wont stop till they get the top spot. They didn’t even give Safaricom’s Jibambie wakati ibambe and have just unleashed Club 20. The service offers subscribers the option of making unlimited calls from 10pm to 6am and sending unlimited text messages all day for a recurring rate of 20 bob which will be deducted daily.
Club 20’s print advert features 6 youthful individuals,three on the right doing the hand gesture for ‘call’, the other three on the left doing the hand gesture for ’sms/text’ while a blinged out 20 bob adorns the center of the ad. Clearly Zain’s Club 20 targets young subscribers but the enticing fee of just kshs.20 for unlimited talking and texting will obviously drain more subscribers from other networks.
The sleeping giant, Safaricom looks like an endangered network at this point. With their new effort conspicuously lacking the mojo,the wonderful world and the Juicy fruit are definitely more enticing. I was disappointed with the Jibambie service. Callers can call for Kshs.3 if you upload a Jibambie scratch card for Kshs.1000 and it gets more expensive to call for those who can only afford the cheaper Jibambie cards.
In my opinion Zain reigns supreme with Vuka tariff (cross network calling at Kshs.8)and the unlimited Club 20. Orange is juicy with calls within orange mobile costing a bob but gets pricey when calling other networks priced (Kshs.14). Safaricom is tailing behind with cross network calls going at Kshs.15.
The Zain drain continues…
SISTER : Do you know what! I’ve discovered something, I don’t pray, I say that I pray and wish in my mind to pray but I don’t physically do it. I rely too much on mom and dad praying for me???? Pray for me so that am able to pray for my self.
BROTHER : I know! I do the same thing!!! That’s a crucial discovery dear. I want 2 pray but am always 2 ‘busy’ and ‘4getful’ 2 get 2 it. Then when it comes 2 crucial times that we need HIS help I bet HE wonders “And where have you been?…. Pray 4 me 2 so that I pray 4 real.
I bet they’re not the only ones…
How often do you holla at the Heavenly Father? And when you get to pray, do you mean what you say? I’ve realized that some of us don’t put much effort in our relationship with God.
We drift away and go on with our lives like we don’t need him only to run back to him and plead for his intervention when the going gets tough .I’d like to call this ‘The driftwood in distress syndrome.’ It’s not a medical condition but a bad habit that we need to loose.
Prayer is a beautiful thing, a conversation with a Supreme being that we are privileged to call father .And just like we work hard to build our relationships with our friends and family we should work hard to build our relationship with God. At the end of the day we need Him and He doesn’t need us, so take the time to talk to the Father. Don’t wait until you are in a fix or when you need a favor to talk to Him. Just holla at Our Father and tell him what’s up.
I’m embracing a new mantra today, a new life motto, a personal mission statement …Unrestricted. Unrestricted? Yes, that’s the mantra right there, unrestricted. Don’t think I haven’t test driven it my friend, I put it out there for the online world to see as an update on face book. A friend asked why ‘Unrestricted’ and I poured out the infectious positive vibe to her. I was beaming with brilliant ideas at the time I thought about that single word that says it all. I was upbeat with optimism and I felt like I could tackle life’s hurdles head on. I was discovering new territories, new talents I never knew I had and that’s the reason I felt unrestricted. It’s not everyday that I feel like superman or like an emperor out to conquer new worlds but it’s a powerful feeling to be unrestricted, a feeling that no mission is impossible. And don’t we all need this faith filled ambition to brave the not always smooth road on this journey called life. Go ahead now, let go of the limitations, the inhibitions…let’s get unrestricted!
Join the UnLtd & Co
I got 3 bizarre text messages this morning that sent the chills through my spine for a while. I’ve received all sorts of SMSes in the past ‘proclaiming’ I’ve won loads of free airtime, others breaking the ‘bullshit good news’ that I’m the lucky winner of a pick up and others from super freaky stalker types(who should get laid/get a sex toy or take a cold shower)!
Today’s triple SMSes were from the same number and carried the following message… “We have been send to kill you coll.0770050722 “ The texts were sent from +256755030878 a Ugandan number.
For a couple of minutes my head was blank, I couldn’t digest the message. Then i thought maybe a friend was pranking me (yes I’ve got crazy friends but not on a threatening/murderous level). I thought of people I’d pissed off/crossed and I couldn’t think of any names. So it hit me…I’ve received infinite bogus ‘you’ve won’ texts from foreign numbers. I love dear life and I was super pissed that damn extortion rings could go to such an extent so i called the senders,they picked up surprisingly and I gave them a tongue lashing in lethal Swahili but the recipient sounded mixed up(Ugandans can’t speak Swahili remember.)
A friend of mine called the number and a sheepish fellow on the other end picked up.My friend said she’d received the message and the dude was said a woman sent him to kill her and they should meet up(do they want to kill random people because they have no clue if their would be victim is a man or a woman?) Can’t they find /hunt down their victims? Seriously people isn’t hooking up for friends,people who want to go on a date …murderers and their would be victims?
I was planning to hold onto my ’suffericom’ simcard just incase they come up with a supercool tariff but at the rate extortion rings and freaks are texting It’s time to flash it down the toilet…or not. Take care now.
The war between mobile telephone service providers is about to get bloody. First it was the mass exodus from ‘Pain’/ suffericom to the wonderful world of zain and now new players Telkom kenya/ Orange are upping the ante drastically.I Was in complete shock when I heard the news on the radio that Telkom kenya starting tonight will have the lowest ever tariff in the land. Callers will be able to talk at the juicy rates of kshs 1.00 per minute and send text messages at the same rate.
When they first launched their brand new product, the new telkom kenya/orange merger didn’t capture the subscribers attention ( calls at kshs 3.50,please )since they didn’t drop with the expected bang.Seems like the Orange people rushed back to the drawing board and changed up their strategy since the ’wonderful’ kid on the block, Zain, offered better rates that are still shaking up the mobile telephone industry.
Things are looking tutty fruity for Orange subscribers but the question is, will the company finally rake in kenyans by the numbers or will another mobile phone service provider crash the party before it begins? If Zain’s Vuka tariff didn’t startle safaricom, maybe Orange’s ringing alarm will be loud enough to wake the sleeping giant. Kenya’s going to be a caller’s heaven at this rate. Can the phone manufacturers come up with a tripple sim card phone already?
Zain are not as vain as I thought. They are actually turning the tables on Safaricom (Pain). It’s indeed a wonderful world when Zain subscribers get to call friends on other networks for Kshs 8 and get to call fellow zainers for as low as Kshs 3. And what does Safaricom do to counter the mass exodus to Zain through the Vuka tariff…In an arrogant, foolish and inconsiderate move they unleash the Ongea tariff a ridiculous package that only worsens the flight from the not so better option. Seriously people, who are you supposed to call at snooze time (from 10pm to 6am). Safaricom’s move has got me wondering whether their nocturnal tariff is for twilight girls/boys, carjackers, night shifters, watchmen and burglars?
Carjackers will be like
“Mse I’ve got this Mbuyu in westy with a Hammer, are you bringing the bullets or what?”
What was all that fuss about Telkom and Orange getting together? . Their rates are not as fruity as I anticipated and definitely not a juicy affair for callers. The only people rocking my world right now is Zain all the other mobile operators are just insane pain! My brothers and sisters tu vukeni twende Canaan… A wonderful world.
Our greedy breed of politicians aren’t done humiliating us.First they set us against each other and we battled senselessly and precious blood flowed in the drain. Then they publicly spat on our faces and stole from us in broad daylight and before we even wipe the stinky spit from our faces,they are at it again dragging our already tarnished name on the dirt… Is it wishful thinking to hope for a better day?
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