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NAIROBI Xherdan Shaqiri Shirt , Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- Kenyans have clung onto SMSs despite actively using web-based message apps that include WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter.
The number of messages East African nation's citizens send remains high about five years since social media craze hit the nation, as the love defies trends in other parts of the world.
Kenyans send up to a record 13 billion text messages in three months, latest figures from the Communication Authority of Kenya (CA) showed Wednesday.
This translates to about 400 messages per individual who owns a mobile phone in the East African nation as subscription stands at 39 million, the CA data for the period January to March indicated.
"The volume of SMSs sent stood at 12.8 billion messages, a slight decline from the previous quarter's 15 billion messages," said the CA.
But the regulator attributed the drop to seasonal changes over the periods, where the quarter October to December experienced many busy activities like the Christmas holidays and long school holidays, which saw many people texting.
Nearly 95 percent of the text-messages are sent on leading telecom Safaricom network with the other five sharing the rest.
Safaricom during the quarter under review recorded a total of 12.6 billion messages sent from its network.
Analysts cite a number of reasons as to why Kenyans have clung onto SMSs even as the world shifts to social media and other forms of internet messaging.
Bernard Mwaso of Edell IT Solutions in Nairobi attributed the resilience of SMSs to the promotions offered by the telecoms.
All the mobile phone operators in Kenya currently offer their customers daily bundle packages ranging from 20 to 500 SMSs and go at between 0.05 U.S. dollars to 0.19 dollars.
"If one gets 500 SMSs at 0.19 dollars, why would they not write text messages all daylong? This is what is making Kenyans to keep on texting because the service is too cheap, the cost nearly negligible as compared to social media where one has to buy internet bundles," he said on Wednesday.
Normally, it costs 0.01 dollars to send a single text message, but with the packages, one sends SMSs almost for free.
Mwaso further observed that the convenience of text messages makes the service further more popular.
"You can send to anyone a text-message instantly regardless of whether they have a smart or dumb phone. This is not the case with social media where one has to have a smart phone to access the service. SMSs therefore remains the most appealing way to send messages among the 39 million subscribers," he said.
Appeal of text-messages has, therefore, made Kenyans embrace both the free message apps and the former.
"When I joined Facebook, I tried ignoring SMSs because I thought the service has been overtaken by time but I failed. What drove me back to SMS was the bundles the telecoms offer. But now I use both the social media apps and SMSs," said 25-year-old university student Hazel Lihanda.
However, as use of SMSs soars amid social media use, the use of Multimedia Messages (MMS) has declined considerably affected by the free message apps. It costs 0.10 dollars to send a single MMS, which is too costly.
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DUBLIN, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- The first half of 2017 has proven to be a dynamic period for Ireland's merger and acquisition market, with the deals having a combined value of 8.2 billion euros, according to a report from a law firm on Thursday.
The report published by the Dublin-based William Fry law firm showed there were 60 mergers and acquisitions involving Irish companies in the first half of the year.
The report also showed private equity activity has gathered momentum in the first half of the year, with 18 transactions worth 7.5 billion euros, representing the highest H1 figure on record.
The financial services sector saw the bulk of deal value during H1 with 7.1 billion euros spent across seven deals, according to the report.
However, the majority of this figure was associated with one deal, Dubai Aerospace's 6.9 billion-euro acquisition of Dublin-based AWAS Aviation Capital, the report said.
Shane O' Donnell, head of William Fry's Corporate Department, said Ireland continues to be one of the strongest performers in Europe in the foreign direct investment sector despite geopolitical uncertainty instigated by Brexit and the U.S. presidential election.
But he said the ongoing period of uncertainty between the European Union and and the United Kingdom poses the greatest risk to dealmaking in 2017 and beyond.
Volatility will inevitably cause some dealmakers to put transactions on hold until a clearer picture emerge, O' Donnell said.
"In response to this changing deal climate, it is essential that Ireland focuses on further enhancing its competitiveness to ensure it can capitalise on investment at both a domestic and international level," he said.
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