stackyFACTSThe tech utopia of seamless digital transactions ends exactly where a corporate monopoly’s profit margins begin.
The tech utopia of seamless digital transactions ends exactly where a corporate monopoly’s profit margins begin. For years, the revolutionary M-Pesa mobile money system acted as a walled garden, trapping users within the Safaricom network because cross-network transfers were technologically blocked. True interoperability was only forced into existence by government regulators tired of watching a single private company act as the absolute gatekeeper of a nation's economy.
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