Why Zain Subscribers are Having difficulties in reaching Safaricom Subscribers

Just recieved a request to talk about the technical reasons that led to Zain subscribers having difficulties in reaching the Zain subscribers. The request is below.

Mrasta Mnoma Boboshanti

Could you care to explain in your blog why Zain subscribers are having a hard time in reaching Safaricom subscribers.

To have a good explanation for this I will have to give you a sample situation in another context. Lets say you are a farmer who deals with paultry. At the moment you have about 50 chicken and your food supplier delivers meals that only fit the 50 chickens every begin of day. Then the following day, you decide to but 50 more chicken to add up your stock and you end up having 100 chickens. On the same day, your food supplier only delivers food for 50 chicken because he never knew you were going to have doubled your chickens. Whose mistake would this be? Its clear, the mistake is yours because you never communicated your chicken stock upgrade to the supplier.

With this context in mind lets take the example of Zain and Safaricom. Initially, Zain had a low subscriber base and this means the initial transmission capacity between Zain and Safaricom subscriber was low. Zain slashed its prices with an intention to up its subscriber base and it did not do a 7 day communication to Safaricom to increase the transmission capacity of Zain subscribers. According to newspaper and news on TV, the communication was done on the previous night and after the prices had been launched to the public. This is a SLA infringment by Zain because as the SLA states, a transmission capacity upgrade needs atlease 6 days to upgrade and 1 day to test. Zain has failed its subscribers and this is no doubt. The offer is termed as a ‘Trial and Error‘.

However, we all have to wait for atleast 8 days for the Network to be up and running smoothly.

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Bringing back the 80s

The Kenyan constitution just got through and the country is greener than before. A lot of employees are working hard without employer motivation, thanks to the green illusionistic adrenaline that got pumped into us during the referendum, just wonder how many days will pass until our African senses come back. (In reality, we never work hard for free not even I can). Anyways, this was one of most peaceful elections and all thanks goes to Kenyans for not making the mistakes we made in the 2007 elections. I highly hope Africa uses us as an election template. (I know I didn’t vote but I promise to vote twice in the 2012 elections…Lol!)

It’s been quite a while since I physically attended a church session, kudos to the free Wi-Fi signal I tap from my neighbor and live streaming that lets me watch sessions from the comfort of my bed. I was seeking some faith adventure and this played a huge role in my decision. On arriving there, It wasn’t hard to note the amount of technological transformation the church had undergone. The presence of surveillance cameras on the gate slabs made me think they could “trace the devils presence around the church walls” (foolish thinking, I must say). It was quite uncomfortable but what the heck, the session begins and I see the pastor open up his mini laptop, the bible just got a replacement and when he asks for the Wi-Fi password I’m thinking he needed to Google a script… Oh! This is truly the bad side of technology. As the church gets to the end, we are given brochures about several upcoming projects and I note “donate via PayPal”, I can’t help but think “it’s always about the Benjamin’s”. As if that is not a knock out, churches nowadays integrate their websites with affiliate programs like ad sense and Amazon associates.

How I wish we could bring back the 80s

Mo hawk is back, how hard to get attention than have a red one. Have a fabulous week all my peeps and keep on borrowing from the 80s, some old school magic works.

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