Reward Kangai, the chief executive officer of Zimbabwe’s second largest mobile operator, NetOne, has been suspended for three months as the operator prepares for a forensic audit to investigate allegations of impropriety.
It’s easy to look at the allegations as just another case of state-owned enterprise corruption but as long as NetOne wants to make any legitimate effort to operate competitively in an increasingly tough environment, it has to make sure it exorcises the ghost of public sector management which places little or no emphasis on accountability…
One of the changes just recently took effect at the beginning of February 2016 as NetOne announced the appointment of a Chief Operating Officer. The newly created position will be taken up by Brian Mutandiro, the former chairman of the telecoms regulator, POTRAZ. Mutandiro will work alongside NetOne’s current Chief Executive Officer, Reward Kangai.
Local mobile network operator, NetOne, is on that Valentine’s Day tip this year. It is offering its prepaid subscribers a full day of free calls made to NetOne numbers on the 14th of February.
In this episode which was recorded “On The Go”, we discussed NetOne’s $600 million wish, the increase in the USF contributions, unlimited internet from Powertel and the well-received offer for free education extended to STEM students.
NetOne, Zimbabwe’s second-largest mobile network operator, and a state-owned enterprise needs $600 million to complete its network expansion exercise.
This is a mobile broadband promotion set to run from the 3rd of December until the beginning of March 2016. It is offering free data to NetOne mobile broadband subscribers that top up their data using the physical recharge data cards.
The government has no intention to merge Telecel, a mobile operator it just bought, with NetOne, which it already owns the ICT minister, Supa Mandiwanzira revealed yesterday. Here are our thoughts on why this doesn’t make business sense.
We recently received information from sources close to NetOne that the mobile operator is set to cut salaries by 28% and scrap benefits and allowances.
This episode of the podcast features a discussion on the latest results from Econet and NetOne, the future for mobile money in Africa being eyed by Mozido and Nettcash, and […]
NetOne subscribers can now get daily, weekly or monthly access to Twitter by buying ordinary Twitter bundles or through a Facebook and Twitter bundle combo. This follows similar products such as WhatsApp and Facebook Bundles that NetOne introduced in the first quarter of this year.
NetOne, the state-owned mobile operator and the country’s second largest network by subscriber numbers has published its unaudited financial results for the half year ended June 2015. Despite a 13.8% increase in revenue, it recorded a $5,8 million loss during the period.
State-owned Mobile Operator, NetOne has taken the lead in LTE rollout with 45 base stations active throughout Zimbabwe and another 15 set for activation in the short term. What is the operator’s strategy and will it be any better than what Econet has tried?
So the Supa Mandiwanzira radio interview by ZiFM Stereo’s powerful interviewer Ruvheneko Parirenyatwa made clear some of the perspectives of government in pushing for operators in Zimbabwe to share infrastructure. It helps you understand […]
According to sources close to the mobile operator, the new position of Chief Operating Officer (COO) for NetOne is set to be taken up by Francis Mawindi, the former CEO of Telecel Zimbabwe. As the COO, Mawindi will be in charge of daily operations while reporting to the NetOne Chief Executive Officer.
NetOne has a fair subscriber base of just under 30% of the market, which has however failed to translate into a healthier OneWallet. Accounting for less than 1% of Mobile Money subscribers, it needs to overhaul the product or face extinction.
Telecel and NetOne owe Econet $26.3 million from the past year alone. These are debts related to interconnection fees that Econet has always struggled to collect from the other operators. That figure is big enough to have paid for a little over 40% of Telecel.
I’m sure I’m not the only person who’s not fully convinced that our country has this digital migration issue under control. Even though NetOne paid for this whole project, I’m […]
That headline sounded a lot like some early 2000s cheesy advert, but there just isn’t any other way to put it really. NetOne, Zimbabwe’s second largest mobile network operator, is […]
We are back with another edition of the Techzim podcast. This episode explores a lot of the hotly followed topics from local tech in the past week. Issues such as […]
It’s only been a few days since word got out that the telecoms regulator, POTRAZ, had given Telecel, the country’s third-largest mobile operator, 30 days to shut down operations. It […]
The minister went on to say that NetOne had relied too much on one source of income, the government, and that the current initiative would ensure the management gets innovative enough to compete and return a dividend to government.
The telecoms industry in Zimbabwe was taken aback this week when suddenly, 24 executive level jobs for a mobile operator were advertised in the press. Starting the very senior position of […]