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Econet launches underwhelming $1 for 10 free minutes service
It's not easy looking a gift horse in the mouth. See, we love cheaper voice and data so don't get us wrong; we like that Econet is offering new cheaper stuff as a mobile operator. It's new from them but not new in this market, and in fact compared to what's already on the market, it is underwhelming. It's as if Econet is offering with half its energy and hoping the subscribers will jump for joy with all their energy.
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Telecel – Econet Interconnection: Telecel opens up network
With the Telecel license issue now sorted, Zimbabweans are now waiting for the two week interconnection blackout between the company and Econet to end. We have been testing ourselves since yesterday if calls from either network are going through to the other. We have only had success calling Telecel numbers from an Econet sim card since yesterday afternoon.
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Crowdfunding and business smarts could have saved Gringo film from piracy losses
So the Gringo investors are yet to recoup their $50 000 because of piracy. Well, if they had stopped to consider all options before releasing their film perhaps they would have made a profit before production started.
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Telecel Zimbabwe renews mobile license. The full POTRAZ statement
Earlier today we exclusively revealed the the Telecel Zimbabwe license renewal talks had been finalised. We just got the official statement from Zimbabwe's telecoms regulatory body, POTRAZ, and it confirms this development.
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Exclusive: Telecel Zimbabwe, POTRAZ & government finalise Telecel license renewal
Top executives in Zimbabwe's telecoms industry have just told Techzim that mobile license renewal talks between Telecel, POTRAZ and the ministry of Transport, Telecommunications and Infrastructural Development have been finalised.
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EcoCash & MasterCard, not VPayments, will ignite ecommerce in Zimbabwe
Through the MasterCard Mobile Money Partnership, you will be able to use your EcoCash wallet wherever MasterCard is accepted with the option to have a prepaid MasterCard that you can also use wherever MasterCard is accepted.
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Econet launches unexciting ‘reactive line for free airtime’ promo
Today, Econet announced the launch of a promo where subscribers are credited with bonus free for recharging their prepaid subscriptions. This basically to encourage people that haven't been using their lines for various reason (like migrating to the other 2 mobile networks) to be active. It would really have had us jumping with excitement if it weren't for one thing.
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Predicting an eCommerce boom in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe has always been a tricky landscape for online ventures. We have seen many an entrepreneur launch an exciting platform only to see it fail. Ventures such as tengesa.com easily come to mind. Don’t get me wrong here; I am not saying we do not have success stories in Zimbabwe.
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Samsung says BBM will be on Galaxy devices in Africa ‘soon’
Yesterday, the news of BBM coming soon to your Android device came from a unlikely source, well likely actually for the marketing machine that Samsung is.
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Zimbabwe mobile tariff wars heat up as Telecel launches another free minutes promo
Even as they are in dispute with the largest mobile operator in the country, a traffic throttling issue that has escalated into a full blown "hey, go to hell!" situation in a short time, Telecel has gone on to launch a promotion that will certainly only add fuel to this price war.
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Two weeks with Africom’s Guroo: Review and Howto
It is more than ten days now since Econet disconnected Telecel and the dispute still rages on with no clear end in sight as both the warring parties and the regulator POTRAZ have been mum on details about how the dispute is being solved if is being solved at all.
