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M-Pesa was on 60 minutes last night: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/future-of-money-kenya-m-pesa-60-minutes/ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/future-of-money-kenya-m-p

• Someone1234 11y ago
  Indeed. Yet another advertisement for a specific company on 60 minutes, that show has turned into a mix of corporate PR and a government mouthpiece. What happened to their journalistic integrity? M-Pesa in particular in one of many competitors in Kenya. But yet they repeated M-Pesa two or three dozen times in the report and asked people about that specific service by name over and over. I rarely watch 60 Minutes now. It just annoys me too much. It is like watching CBS Evening News, just blatant propaganda and scaremongering, I miss the BBC, and Al Jazeera (both of which are "strangely" not available in much of the US, so we have to put up with the US version of Russia Today).
  • joseph 11y ago
    M-Pesa got there first and is by far the dominant mobile money system in Kenya, regardless of competitors like Airtel Money. Even people who use Airtel for their phone service will still keep a Safaricom SIM card on hand so they can use M-Pesa.