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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Earlier this week, we received a tip in our inbox about a mobile broadband service about to be launched by ZOL, one of Zimbabwe’s largest ISPs. Here: ZOL has just […]
Telecel today launched its electronic wallet service, Telecash, which allows mobile phones to be used to send money to anyone with a mobile phone, (regardless of network) and pay for […]
Information we’ve received from reliable sources confirms that Telecel Zimbabwe’s mobile money service, Telecash, will finally be launched in Harare this week. The service, which we’re told will launch without […]
Early this week we noticed three quarter page advert in the Herald advertising a new consumer electronics retail shop in Harare called iTech. Initially we did not think much of […]
If I were to make a list of things that I absolutely hate: capped internet connections and paying for my internet on a per megabyte basis would not only make […]
One of Zambia’s largest mobile operators, MTN Zambia, announced this week the launch of the country’s first commercial LTE network. The announcement was made by the mobile operator’s Zambia Chief […]
This analysis shall be in three parts. To thoroughly assess the payments landscape in Zimbabwe, I shall use three frameworks, or if you like, perspectives or concepts. These are; disruptive […]
Sources in the industry have exclusively told us that Econet has finally given in to the pressure of the banks, regulatory authorities to open up full USSD functionality for the […]
Telecel hasn’t found it easy in recent months and subscriber numbers released by POTRAZ indicate that the MNO has suffered from the effects of a turbulent 2013. During last year’s […]
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe’s latest telecoms statistics show that the country’s total broadband subscriptions climbed 6.45 percentage points in 2013, going up from 33.4% in December […]
We just got the full telecoms subscription statistics from the regulator, POTRAZ, for the 3 months ending December 2013. So, very current. There are two key things you will notice […]
A few days ago I noticed vPayments finally has easy to integrate plugins for e-commerce CMS like Opencart, Magento and OScommerce and I immediately downloaded for an Opencart store I was […]
This is a comparison of the features available with the mobile money services offered by Zimbabwe’s mobile operators. While Telecash hasn’t launched yet officially, we had the opportunity to interact […]
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 […]
We’re just from this year’s Zimbabwe ICT Achievers awards ceremony which was held in Harare at the University of Zimbabwe. The awards, which are hosted by the Ministry of ICT […]
Recently we came across an iWayAfrica online banner advert advertising mobile broadband through a “range of devices” including one called the Pocket Rocket. With this new product, iWayAfrica effectively becomes […]
We can exclusively reveal that Telecel Zimbabwe, has just done a soft (and likely partner as well) launch of its mobile money service, Telecash. Those with access can now transact […]
It’s just about the exact same time last year we announced the launch of a web startup called ZimboKitchen.com. At initial contact, we had good hunch on their potential of […]
First Mutual Life today launched a new mobile based funeral assurance product that is called “e-FML”, which suggests an acronym for Electronic First Mutual Life. The service costs as little […]
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 […]
Reliable information we have received from sources says Telecel will be using the Obopay platform for their Telecash mobile money service. This is contrary to market information that has been […]
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 […]
So yesterday when Telecel called a press briefing we were almost certain the company would announce their new mobile money service. It’s been known for a while now that Telecel […]