Yesterday we attended an ICT for agriculture conference held here in Harare. At the conference, organisations in the sector – Esoko type startups, private companies like Econet (who by the way […]
Yesterday it emerged at the ICT in Agriculture seminar held in Harare that Mubatsiri Investments, the local licensee of the Esoko Platform, also provides content to the recently launched Ecofarmer […]
Following our review of the reprehensible Subscriber Registration law (Statutory Instrument 142 of 2013) we clairvoyantly predicted that one of the unfortunate effects of this law would be that Network […]
Information we’ve just received confirms that NetOne is the company running teaser ads in the print press in preparation for a re-launch of their OneWallet mobile money service. The re-launch, […]
Reliable information we have received from sources says Telecel will be using the Obopay platform for their Telecash mobile money service. This is contrary to market information that has been […]
The use of Opera’s mobile browsers, specifically that of Opera Mini we’re presuming, registered significant increase in Zimbabwe over the past 2 months. Especially in October when usage increased by […]
Now that the rain season is earnestly upon us the farmer in some of us has been awakened. There are all kinds of farms from the little spot you poach […]
So yesterday when Telecel called a press briefing we were almost certain the company would announce their new mobile money service. It’s been known for a while now that Telecel […]
When BlackBerry announced they’d open up BlackBerry to everyone other platforms, the concern immediately was that in Zimbabwe, where BlackBerry Internet Services is currently blocked by regulation, the messaging app would […]
A press release from Telecel today says the company’s mobile broadband subscribers using the co-branded Opera Mini as their browsers has increased six-fold since launch 18 months ago. They however […]
Telecel today announced the reduction of the price of their mobile internet dongles from the $30 to now $25. A press release they sent out a few hours ago says […]
We were quite pleased with Econet’s announcement on Sunday that they had launched cheaper Facebook browsing via website specific bundles that subscribers can buy for $3 a month. The bundle […]
In a recent interview with POTRAZ deputy director general Alfred Marisa, he explained that the introduction of number portability is in response to market saturation in the local mobile telecoms […]
Yesterday, we published an article in which we had comments from POTRAZ Deputy Director General, Alfred Marisa, on the legality of the recently launched Zimfon VoIP service. Legality in terms […]
Following the announcement of the new Zimfon VoIP service, there’s been a lot of discussion both online and off about the legality of the service against Zimbabwe’s telecoms regulations. So […]
Recently, we had the opportunity to interview a representative of Zimfon, Brett Chulu, on the nature of the Zimfon service; what it offers, how its different from competition, the relationship […]
In a country where business and development is centralised in the capital city, you’d expect a national ICT association to have its main operations in Harare. In the case of […]
Powertel, a local government owned Internet Access Provider (IAP), announced yesterday a reduction of mobile broadband prices as part of a promo called the “hoza 25 – 35 promotion”. That […]
POTRAZ expects mobile operators to implement number portability in 2014 POTRAZ says it regards number portability as an important regulatory tool to widen subscriber choice and promote service based competition […]
Customers conducting EcoCash transactions under a tent recently at the Harare Agricultural Show Econet announced today the introduction of a new EcoCash based mobile money service called EcoCash Save. The […]
Three million Zimbabweans who use the EcoCash Wallet can now also operate a savings account Econet Wireless has launched a new service called EcoCashSave, which allows an EcoCash customer to […]
Every now and again, an email reaches our mailboxes that makes us here all go “Exactly!”. One such came today. It’s from a reader called Tapiwa and they are basically bringing […]
Some very innovative people have sat down on this one. See, the relevancy of an app to the populace is not necessarily in the cutting edge technology (that’s for tech […]
A report in a Zimbabwean weekly, the Financial Gazette, said today that EcoCash has reached 3 million mobile money subscribers. The new subscription numbers come as the company celebrates the […]
Whenever I’m in a foreign country in the region, I try to observe and ask questions about mobile stuff. Mobile money especially is a big interest and the one thing […]
Remember the new international money transfer startup called Afrocoin that we wrote about back in June? Then, they were just a profile on Crunchbase and a few screenshots here and […]
The past few weeks Telecel and NetOne both revealed that as part of the POTRAZ directive to disconnect unregistered SIM cards by 31 August, they each shed 100,000 subscribers. Almost […]