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 […]
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 […]
Econet just sent through a press release whose main aim seems to have been to encourage EcoCash subscribers to ask (they could have as well used the word ‘demand’! ) […]
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 […]
A little over 6 months ago, we wrote that Econet was working on an EcoCash internet payments gateway. The API, were had been told then, was supposed to have been […]
The last time Econet announced the number of it’s EcoCash subscribers was back at the beginning of October 2013 when the services’ subscribers reached 3 million. Today, at the launch […]
So, we usually have discussions here at the office about new tech products, startups, the players and everything in between! And sometimes, aside from our weekly podcast, we’re eager to […]
So, Telecel has been pushing the message that their mobile money is cheaper. Just how cheap you must be curious? Well, we just got the Telecash tariff schedule and here’s our […]
Just this morning we published a story on the EcoCash Droid app, an independent EcoCash app that replaces USSD codes with an interactive android interface that shortens EcoCash transaction speeds […]
A local developer, Gedion Moyo, has developed an android application that will enable users to transact through EcoCash without going through the regular tedious USSD menus. The EcoCash Droid app […]
Just as we start the New Year, consumers will not be happy that they will be paying more to use one of the most widely used financial services products in […]
We just received one of those just-to-let-you-know, releases by Econet this morning. The release, sent out to assuage fears of Zimbabwe’s liquidity problems affecting Steward Bank and therefore the EcoCash […]
First, congratulations to the EcoCash team for winning the AfricaCom Best Mobile Money award. No doubt a few heads have turned towards Zimbabwe and we appreciate it. Congratulations as well […]
Here’s our latest Techzim podcast episode. In there we cover the new DStv Explora (price, competition – or lack of – locally), the EcoCashSave system problem, The ICT Achievers awards […]
So over a week ago we revealed that Telecash had been opened to staff and that they were accessing it via the *888# USSD code. We have more. Our insider […]
So earlier today we received the following email from a reader: I have an account with Ecocash Ecosave account, my money disappeared from account on the 9th of December 2013 […]
Today we attended the launch of EcoCash Payroll, the product we wrote about here in Monday. The purpose of the event was really to have the journalist writing more about […]
Following closely developments in mobile services provision, I predicted EcoCash’s savings account before it was launched. I even proposed a Mobile phone directory for my wish list which Econet launched […]
As you probably know, there was an incident last week where a cash in transit security vehicle lost almost half a million to robbers that pounced on it. The money […]
So this has been a great year for Mahindra Comviva and EcoCash. The mobiquity platform that runs EcoCash, and more specifically, the EcoCash implementation of Mobiquity, has won Mahindra Comviva […]
Econet Wireless today announced that subscribers to their Ecocash Save mobile banking service have now reached 900,000. 50,000 more than subscribers to typical brick and mortar banking services in Zimbabwe […]
Last month, when Econet launched the mobile phone based savings account, in an article titled, “EcoCash (Save) is the new bank account for the masses” we wrote: The savings account opens […]
Econet Wireless has just launched a new promotion to encourage its mobile money customers to save money using the recently launched EcoCash Save phone based savings account. The promotion dubbed […]
Mahindra Comviva, the company powering Econet’s mobile money solution, EcoCash, today won the “Best mobile money service” award at the AfricaCom Awards in South Africa. The awards are a big deal on […]
Almost 3 months ago, Econet suddenly announced a suspension of EcoCash transfers to other mobile local mobile networks; Telecel and NetOne. We suspected ofcourse that this was a move to […]
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 […]
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 […]