DSTV’s unfair pricing model
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DSTV’s unfair pricing model

Like most men I like sports; I find Test cricket and the UEFA Champions league particularly interesting. I also like Nature and History documentaries although I care little for gossip news or “reality” televisions shows like Idols and X-factor. Under no circumstances will you find me watching Big Brother or Race.
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Comparison of mobile broadband tariffs in Zimbabwe
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Comparison of mobile broadband tariffs in Zimbabwe

Here's a comparison of the tariffs of the mobile broadband services offered by Mobile Operators In Zimbabwe. We have included both the traditional GSM mobile operators, Telecel, Econet and NetOne, as well as new emerging mobile operators Africom and PowerTel. First we post the comparison, some notes to make sense of the data, and then some conclusions we're drawing from it.
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Posted inBroadband

NetOne introduces internet bundles for prepaid customers

Of the three mobile operators in Zimbabwe, government owned NetOne is the only company that has been selling its internet service at a simple to understand flat US 7 cents per megabyte for all subscribers. That has changed today. The company announced the introduction of data bundles today
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Posted inConnectivity

Orascom close to selling off stake in Telecel Zimbabwe

A report posted today on UK based TMT Finance says Vimpelcom, the company that owns Telecel Zimbabwe through a majority stake in Orascom Telecom, is close to selling off its Sub-saharan African telecoms assets that include Telecel Zimbabwe, and units in Burundi and Central African Repulic.
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The wearable technology craze
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The wearable technology craze

Human beings can be crazy when when it comes to technology-or anything for that matter-so much sometimes they subscribe to the weirdest notions. Take for example dog clothes and Doggles that will cost you prices north of $100. Then there are Snuggies and electric blankets.
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Posted inConnectivity Startups

Why Tengesa failed. Startup founder shares with us

In October 2011 a new local classifieds service, Tengesa.com, launched. The service was designed to target primarily mobile web users, a part of the market largely ignored by other marketplace services like the popular classifieds.co.zw. About a year later though, the service was shut down.
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5 apps that’ll make your internet bundles last longer
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5 apps that’ll make your internet bundles last longer

You can't put in words how significant an impact this has had on your life. But there’s something else you can’t explain; the smartphone feeds on your expensive internet bundles so much you’re almost certain that the mobile network is stealing from you!
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Guide to online shopping in Zimbabwe: buying from sellers who don’t ship to Zimbabwe
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Guide to online shopping in Zimbabwe: buying from sellers who don’t ship to Zimbabwe

One of the most frustrating things, when checking out during online shopping, is finding out the product you selected to buy cannot be shipped to Zimbabwe. This is true with a good number of leading computer manufacturers and some merchants on popular storefronts such as Amazon.com and Ebay.com. At best, you have to contend with some local middlemen or dealer who will of course have their cut at your expense or, at worst, the product simply is not available any other way.
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The Herald website DoS attacked by Anonymous Africa
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The Herald website DoS attacked by Anonymous Africa

The website belonging to Zimbabwe's largest daily newspaper, The Herald Online, suffered a denial of service (DoS) attack some hours ago, apparently carried out by Anonymous Africa. The hacker collective is the same that attacked a South African news site earlier today. The attack on the Herald lasted only a few hours during which the site was not available at all
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Posted inConnectivity

Telecel Zimbabwe strangely promotes James Makamba on social media

Usually, the content companies generate on social media platforms like Facebook is centered on the company's products; what new products they have, helping customers understand them, responding to customer questions about products, promotions etc... generally, the content is related to building the company's brands by engaging social media users. Telecel Zimbabwe is doing it a bit differently though.
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South African news site attacked by hackers for Mugabe content
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South African news site attacked by hackers for Mugabe content

A report by MyBroadband today says a prominent South African news website, http://iol.co.za was taken down by hackers in a Denial of Service attack (DoS) apparently for running Zim president Mugabe content. The attack was carried out by a hackers collective known as Anonymous Africa who are using the Twitter account, @zim4thewin.
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Posted inMobile Money

Telecel Zimbabwe considering mobile money re-entry?

Last year, Telecel Zimbabwe pulled a 'surprise of the year' move on all of us; A mobile operator killed its mobile money service. No one knows (well, except them and probably ZimSwitch) when exactly Skwama was killed because it was done silently, only to be disclosed when we asked about the disappeared product in September last year.
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Posted inBroadband

Here’s why your TelOne ADSL service has been very slow lately

Over the past couple of days users of TelOne's ADSL broadband service have complained that the internet's been very slow, erratic and, in some cases no internet at all to speak of. We contacted TelOne to establish what the problem is and the company says they (well, their partner in Mozambique) suffered a service failure and they had to reroute internet traffic to some not so good routes.
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