Shakespeare said: Brevity is the soul of wit and so I will be succinct and get to the point. I find the pricing model employed by Econet, Netone and Telecel […]
This is a special Techzim podcast covering the Mobile World Congress taking place in Barcelona Spain. Techzim writer Tendai Mupaso made a Skype call to William Chui who is currently […]
So mobile operators are reeling under dumb pipe threat the internet is permanently visiting upon them. Some have cleverly accepted this inevitability and have gone the app bundles route. The […]
We had another interesting podcast were we discussed the recently introduced Whatsapp bundle from Econet, Baba Jukwa’s announcement to shut down his page and we had the opportunity to explorer […]
Through an article in The Sunday Mail today, Payway announced the launch of its electronic payment service which uses self service kiosks, an Android application, and standard electronic vending devices (the […]
Steward Bank announced via Tweeter and Facebook a new product line that they are calling Diaspora Banking. The service is targeting Zimbabwean in the Diaspora to open any of the […]
Seeing WhatsApp’s seemingly extremely high valuation that came with the announcement today by Facebook that they are acquiring it. We thought we could bring the figures home a bit and […]
Powertel has introduced a new package or promotion targeting students called the “Scholar Pack”. The new package is offering college and university students unlimited surfing and downloads for just $0.50 […]
Reads an article on Cellular News: Kenya’s Safaricom has been accused of abusing its dominant market power after it barred its mobile money agents from acting on behalf of rival […]
A few weeks ago we had a brief post on our “initial thoughts” of the Titan smartphone which Econet is retailing for $366. We have since got a hold of […]
Here’s the latest Techzim podcast. In the episode we discussed the ongoing war between Telecel and Econet Wireless for mobile money agents – the underhanded stuff operators would (or would […]
Editor’s note: This review contribution on the new ZOL mobile WiMAX offering was provided through by Chenjerai Katanda, founder of Schools Sports Network, a website that covers Zimbabwean Schools Sports. […]
For the first time, mobile penetration has exceeded 100% mainly driven by subscriber growth from Econet Wireless and Netone. The country’s second largest operator was apparently at receiving end of […]
Picture: Telecel’s Financial Services Director: Nkosinati Ncube It appears the war for mobile money agents is escalating as we can reveal that Telecel lodged an official complaint with POTRAZ alleging […]
Last week Friday we wrote that PesaPal, a popular Eastern African internet payment gateway, is expanding to Zimbabwe, and a few hours later, as if not to be outdone, another […]
Hot on the heels of the Telecash launch and an alleged subsequent fight over agents with Econet, a new Mobile Money agents association called Mobile Money Transfer Agents Association of […]
Here’s our latest Techzim podcast episode! Guest on the show was Tinashe Nyaruwanga, blogger, social media & eCommerce enthusiast, Clinton Mutambo, our events coordinator here and the founder of Esaja.com, […]
Over the past several days, the discussion in the mobile money space locally has been around a threatening SMS that Econet was accused of sending to their EcoCash agents, essentially […]
Last week, at the launch of Ecoschool tablet and platform, one of the things we said was remarkable was the similarity of the EcoSchool concept to the Mazwi startup that […]
I have followed with interest the discussion on the ingenious Ecocash Droid app and how it was swiftly disabled by Econet. I was quite frankly amazed by some of the […]