Lonie first had to convince shops to trial the system so that 300 would eventually launch it.

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Lonie has had her work cut out getting M-PESA its mass appeal.

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"Silverton is about what skiing used to be, " says Lonie R.

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Leila Makki over at TelecomTV has published a report today on M-PESA, following her interview with Nick Hughes and Susie Lonie and at the Economist Innovation Awards last week.

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M-PESA, technically a business unit of Vodafone, which holds the patent for the idea, is now being implemented in South Africa by Vodacom, where Lonie acts as executive head of its mobile payments business.

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