The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe recently released their annual report and in it they disclosed that they fined Zimbabwe’s 3 mobile network operators $93 353.24. According to […]
You may think that the complaints we lodge to our service providers go unheeded by the telecoms regulator, POTRAZ. Actually, I was surprised that they include statistics about customer complaints […]
The Zimbabwean telecommunications sector has been crazy and toxic for a long time. From the days of Strive Masiyiwa being denied a licence to operate a mobile network there has […]
I am pretty sure that we constantly need to transfer airtime to other people. So what do you do in the event that the airtime you want to send is […]
Zimbabwe now has a new president, President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa. The honor comes with the task of delivering the promises he made in his party’s manifesto. He made many promises across different […]
Being shunned by local telecoms operators was most probably a blessing in disguise for residents of Maitengwe in Matabeleland South. This is because residents of Maitengwe used foreign currency (forex) mobile […]
Over the years, MNOs have shunned some areas because erecting base stations there is not economically viable,those areas will yield a very low ROI. Potraz through the Universal Service Fund […]
Given the rise in use of Over The Top (OTT) services such as Whatsapp, Facebook, and other platforms one would assume that the international voice calls conducted through network providers […]
After 3 days of hard work we get to hear the ideas that made it to the top. This is the OneMoney Hackathon’s Last day The Winners Of The OneMoney […]
The OneMoney hackathon has been running since yesterday the 13th of July. As of yesterday, a 106 participants have registered and formed 16 teams that will battle it out and […]
The second session of the OneMoney hackathon just started. Day 1 of the #Hackathon has begun! The Second Session @OneMoneyZw @NetOneCellular @TelOneZW https://t.co/eZUkkpurG5 — Techzim (@Techzim) July 13, 2018
Coming to you live from the TelOne Learning Center, the OneMoney Hackathon. Day 1 of the #Hackathon has begun! @OneMoneyZw @NetOneCellular @TelOneZW https://t.co/529LML067E — Techzim (@Techzim) July 13, 2018
The message below has been circulating on Whatsapp. SIM SWAP FRAUD Dear All, Please lets be very careful.. There is a new HIGH TECH FRAUD in town called the SIM […]
Going through the POTRAZ telecoms sector report for the first quarter of 2018 was quite interesting. One can’t help but think we are on a downward trajectory when they notice […]
As 30 July draws closer, political parties are racing to canvass as much support (which they hope will turn into votes) as they can. Until now to put across their […]
For the better part of the past two days, EcoCash – which also happens to have the lion’s share of the mobile money market – has not been working as advertised. […]
Telone’s latest financial results for the year ended 31 December 2017 showed a marginal increase in its total revenue from the same period last year. The state-owned company total revenues increased […]
Today marked the opening of Zimbabwe’s first women’s bank, Zimbabwe Women Micro-finance Bank (ZWMB) which is mandated to give women increased access to finance at befitting terms. Zimbabwean women are said […]
POTRAZ announced their Long-Run Average Increment Cost (LRIC) where they made some cool announcement. Out of bundle data browsing is dropping massively: The Out of bundle mobile data charges threshold […]
Zimbabwe’s largest mobile money services provider, Ecocash has set its site on the sub dollar economy. They have now scrapped off transaction fees for all below dollar transactions when paying […]
It is no secret that the government is not too chuffed about EcoCash’s dominance in Zimbabwe. The minister of ICT, Supa Mandiwanzira is on record multiple times saying as much. […]
By this point Telecel’s ownership issue are well documented and since 2015 Telecel ownership squats have been making headlines multiple times. Now it seems there might finally be a conclusion. […]
The Minister of Information Communications Technology and Cyber Security, Supa Mandiwanzira, said that mobile tariffs are going to shift in the near future but he refused to comment on whether […]
The battle for dominance on mobile money platforms is increasingly getting exciting with Netone announcing that its mobile money platform, OneMoney clocked 1 million subscribers. this means that for every 4 […]
Provisional voters roll inspection ended yesterday and as much as 2.4 million voters verified their details in the process. The primary reason we are interested in these figures is that […]
Telone’s National Broadband Backbone (NBB) is set to be completed by this June, 24 months ahead of expected schedule. NBB is a countrywide project of upgrading and modernizing Telone’s ICT infrastructure. The […]
Talk about stellar results. Yesterday, the Econet group released the financial results for the year ended 28 February 2018. We were impressed to find that profits after tax were up […]
Yesterday’s Econet Tech Expo (Expo) was marked by the announcement saying that Kwese will be broadcasting all 64 World Cup games. Another significant highlight of the Expos was signified by […]
Econet revenues increased to $831,6 million for the year ended February 2018. This reflected an increase of ($209.9 million) 34% relative to the last comparable period. The increase was propped […]