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Safaricom should consider M-Pesa fallback servers

The suspension of M-Pesa services following the collapse of servers belonging to Safaricom’s principal owner Vodafone was unfortunate.

Coming as it did at the end of the month, it severely disrupted the millions of Kenyans who operate outside of the normal banking system, and depend on the service for virtually all their secure financial transactions, including paying bills.

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