A big blue dot has ‘graced’ local papers over the past month with nothing more than a coming soon tagline. Yesterday’s Sunday Mail finally unmasked the dot that had aroused a lot of curiosity, it seems that even non techies we spoke to were trying to figure out its identity. Dotmore is TelOne’s branded offering…
Yesterday, the state owned daily published an article titled “Low Tariffs Affect Parastatals Infrastructure”. You can find it here. The article mentions Air Zimbabwe, Agribank, National Oil Company of Zimbabwe, Cold Storage Company, Grain Marketing Board and TelOne in a list of state companies that registered interim losses of up to 46.4 million to October…
The Harare-Mozambique TelOne backbone fibre is now live. The state owned fixed telecoms operator has announced that the cable now links the state owned fixed operator to the East African Submarine System (EASSy) undersea cable through Mozambique. TelOne has taken up initial capacity of 2.48 Gbps (16 x STM-1s) and according to the company the…
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) has revealed through Zimbabwe’s state owned daily, the Herald, that it granted TelOne a GSM mobile phone license late last year. TelOne is Zimbabwe’s only fixed line operator and is owned by the government. TelOne becomes the country’s fourth mobile operator. The other three are Econet,…
The Herald reports this morning that TelOne, the state owned fixed telephone operator, has completed the fibre backbone project to connect Harare directly to an Internet fibre cable coming out of Mozambique.
This week, the Herald carried an interesting article on the national fibre backbone project. Carefully titled “Laying of fibre optic cable progresses well” the article disclosed that TelOne, the country’s only fixed telecom operator is digging a fibre cable trench to Mutare.
Harare residents eager to connect to Starlink’s high-speed satellite internet are facing a frustrating reality: the service is oversubscribed. Starlink has changed Harare’s status from “Available Now” to “Expanding Q3 […]
I think there are several reasons why Zimbos and Africans at large don’t consider it proper customer support unless they can walk into an office and verbally abuse some unfortunate […]
When we spoke to a source at Potraz last week we learned something that surprised us. Despite Dandemutande and Frampol securing their Starlink Authorised Reseller status, Potraz has so far […]
So, people who bought brand-new Starlink kits from the now-licensed operator were excited. Everything went well until the saw their packages placed ‘On Hold’ by DHL, Starlink’s distribution partner. Theories […]
As Starlink makes its grand entrance into Zimbabwe’s telecommunications arena, it’s easy to get caught up in the excitement. The promise of high-speed internet at seemingly affordable prices has many […]
Here’s a list of Starlink Approved Resellers in Zimbabwe. Of the 5 companies, according to Zimbabwe’s telecoms regulator, Potraz, only Aura and TelOne are cleared by to sell locally. In […]
Zimbabwe’s telecoms regulator POTRAZ finally announced the Starlink licencing today, 10 September. According the statement it released, POTRAZ licenced Starlink Zimbabwe (presumably a Space X /Starlink subsidiary) last week Friday […]
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz)’s responsibilities include ensuring that we, the people, are not taken advantage of by operators. By operators, I mean telecom companies in […]
The biggest mobile network operator in Zimbabwe, Econet, recently released its annual report for the year ended February 2024. I still find it frustrating that we only get to examine […]
Local ICT solutions company, Frampol, has become (as far as we know) the first Authorised Starlink Reseller in Zimbabwe. ZimPriceCheck revealed this morning that the Frampol announced to customers: “As […]
As you know, Starlink may have beaten everyone to the punch but there are competitors in the low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite game. Today, the second biggest player is Eutelsat with […]
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) is back with another Innovation Drive Challenge. These challenges are aimed at promoting innovation and creativity within the ICT sector in […]
It was just yesterday when we were talking about the excitement surrounding satellite internet, especially the low-earth orbit kind that Starlink and OneWeb offer, and how some mistakenly think fibre […]
The hardest thing to do as a human being is to be unbiased and objective. It is especially hard when you have parted with your hard-earned money for a product […]