In this episode of the Techzim podcast, we discuss Econet and Liquid Telecom’s reaction to POTRAZ’s Infrastructure Sharing strategy, the iWayAfrica VSAT products that just got so much cheaper and the online retailing platform YoStore from the ISP, YoAfrica.
It’s easy to consider VSAT as an outdated phenomenon that nobody really talks about anymore. With Internet Providers complaining about the cost of VSAT landing fees and the gazetting of new fees reducing them to token figures, one must realise that indeed VSAT is still a technology to consider.
In this mid-week podcast, we discuss the wave of employment contract terminations that has reached Telecel, ShowMax, the new VOD service, the roaming tariffs that have been reviewed in Southern Africa, Gtel in Kenya and the $99 Econet Home Power Station.
Here are some more details on the $99 Econet Home Power Station (HPS) which received a discount recently. The current model of the HPS is being sold on a cash only basis, and it does not have prepaid payment plan as was the case with the first models introduced by Econet Solar.
Econet has lowered the price of the current model of the ZESA Busting Home Power Station from its current price of $163 to $99. A $64 discount on any item deserves some notice, but also raises questions.
The Harare institute of Technology will hold a Technovation day tomorrow (Friday 19 June) which looks like it’s going to be an exhibition for companies and organisations in science, engineering and technology.
Local mobile operator Econet Wireless has reportedly bought Redan Gas. This marks Econet’s further investment into energy solutions that will involve the distribution of LP Gas through two plate stoves and composite cylinders.
Just like Tesla, Mercedes Benz has entered the home battery market. The German car brand has unveiled its own home battery. This gives people frustrated with ZESA an alternative.
The national power authority, ZESA, has failed to deliver on its mandate as the one source of power for the majority of Zimbabweans. The poor service delivery and lack of consistent supply is enough to prove that. Perhaps it is now time to consider players from the private sector and to engage them seriously.
Just over a week ago ZESA’s grid system suffered a catastrophic failure that saw both Hwange and Kariba somehow go offline, leaving the entire country, except Bulawayo and probably a couple […]
So let’s face reality and move away from Utopian slogans and hashtags. Things related to a lot of local services, especially power supply, haven’t been so good so far. This […]
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When it comes to African tech entrepreneurship there’s always a lot that is said about the Kenyan ecosystem and all that’s come from it. In a lot of these discussions names […]
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If you are frustrated by the 18 hour blackouts we have been living with lately you might have been pleased to note that today the country’s power regulator, ZESA Holdings […]
It has been reported that Econet Wireless Global has secured a $150 million financing facility to enable its expansion program. In an announcement from Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) the institution that […]
In my previous macroeconomic review, I forecast 2014 would be a dark year and for the most part I have been proven right. Businesses ( tech or not) have been […]
There is a joke currently doing rounds in the social media about how leaders can make their nations happy. While for most nations this is a very difficult and often […]
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So I have already expressed my love for the Germans and how much I loathe the beautiful Samba football of the Brazilians – may they crash out in the first […]
An ongoing pilot mobile learning research in rural Nkayi at Mpumelelo School is testing the potential of iPads in the classroom. Under the pilot research twenty Apple iPads running iOS […]
Apart from the free dumb phone, there’s one other thing that Econet did these past several months that really impressed me; the Facebook Bundles. But you and I know Facebook […]
The CES has always been too advanced to interest most African markets on a “lets do business now level”. The technology presented at CES 2014 is largely for early adopters […]
“For me it’s all about team work really. When this solar charger was being developed, there was a lot of input from the hearing impaired. There was a team a […]
In between the politicking of 2013 one of the sad facts that has somehow not garnered the attention it rightly deserves is the fact that Zimbabwe is facing a serious […]
We just got an email from one of the team pitching in a few hours today at the StartupBus Africa finals in Cape Town. The team, GreenBack, has developed an […]
Today Techzim attended an event where we witnessed the signing ceremony sealing a distribution deal between Line Products and Services (LPS) and Samsung for Samsung’s Solar Powered Internet School, Smart […]
Remember the Econet Home Power Station(HPS)? It’s the mother device of Econet Wireless’s solar company, Econet Solar International (ESI). It first surfaced at the COP17 Summit in late 2011 with the […]