Safaricom PLC on Tuesday declared an arrangement, which is in pilot organize, to have a social informing application,Bonga, which will be connected to M-Pesa.
The administration named Bonga (Swahili word for Chat) will be incorporated with M-Pesa to enable the supporters of impart past sending cash to each other, changing the stage into a kind of interpersonal organization.
“It’s one thing to impart data to some person it’s something else to make an installment, to send cash to some person,” Kamal Bhattacharya, boss development officer at Safaricom, said in a phone meet.
afaricom is 35 for every penny claimed by South African gathering Vodacom and 5 for each penny by Vodacom’s significant investor Vodafone.
With about 30 million clients, the organization has 69 for each penny of Kenya’s aggregate cell phone supporters.
This implies, Mr Bhattacharya clarified that M-Pesa clients will have the capacity to message each other on Bonga in three routes: client to-client, client to-business and gathering pledges through “social gatherings” much like the gathering capacity on WhatsApp.
Bonga is the primary item propelled by the organization’s development hatchery Alpha.
It’s first-half income reported in November demonstrated that income from M-Pesa rose 16 for each penny, while income from telephone calls ascended by a long shot less – just 4 for every penny. Versatile network access income ascended by almost a third.
“Our future is to end up a stage that empowers business in Kenya and additionally our purchasers to do their work in an unexpected way,” Bhattacharya said. “Courier stages are the most famous applications, the most mainstream approach on the web today to unite individuals.”