When we wrote about the Steward Bank system upgrade over the weekend, we were skeptical that this upgrade would make the bank’s problems go away. We concluded: Even as they promise to […]
Embed from Getty Images Strive Masiyiwa, the founder of Econet Wireless Zimbabwe and its related companies in Africa (together forming one of the biggest telecoms group on the continent) has been […]
Telecel hasn’t launched anything in a while. In a very long while. They have been quiet in their corner while other companies released new stuff (in the case of NetOne) or complained […]
Just the other day, I was talking to a local developer and he brought to my attention a recurring topic which I had otherwise chosen to ignore in the past. […]
Techzim was recently alerted to the launch of Ecocash’s Home Wallet, a service that essentially allows those in the diaspora to access and enjoy local Ecocash services, acting as if they […]
After much speculation, Multichoice Africa has announced that DSTV Zimbabwe will not be increasing their prices this April as has been the custom. Our counterparts who are located down South were subjected […]
The current liquidity crisis in Zimbabwe has hit mobile money really hard. A report by the telecoms regulator in Zimbabwe, POTRAZ, says mobile money transactions in the last quarter of 2016, […]
The number of voice call minutes made in Zimbabwe has continuing to tumble as more and more people resort to WhatsApp for their voice calls. A report by Zimbabwe’s telecoms […]
Vamsi Madhav, VP, MFS at Comviva and Natalie Jabangwe – the General Manager of EcoCash EcoCash, the mobile money service that’s owned by Zimbabwe’s largest mobile network operator, Econet, was […]
Commenting on one of his recent blog posts, Masiyiwa recently highlighted the massive value being created by the IPO, particularly against the backdrop of its financial performance. He also expressed his interest in buying shares in Snapchat.
The issue, though, isn’t really the Steward Bank show or how big a marketing opportunity for its Square product the bank is eyeing here. What’s striking here is the way Facebook Live has become a thing.
It’s high time the government wakes up and be driven by economic rather than political interests in its policies.
In 2016 mobile money payments in Zimbabwe accounted for 81.2% of all electronic payment transactions maintaining the dominance mobile money services have had in transaction volumes.
According to Steward Bank, most services are now functional and the systems upgrade was completed on most platforms. It will be fully wrapped up by the end of February 2017. In the meantime, there might some incidents of service disruption.
EcoCash, the country’s largest mobile money owned by Econet Zimbabwe has announced another reduction of its monthly transaction limit for its MasterCard Debit card. Cardholders can now only transact for […]
Strive Masiyiwa – image credit: econetwireless.com Mobile World Congress 2017 – this year’s edition of the mobile industry’s largest annual exhibition and conference -is around the corner. As the event that […]
ShowMax, the Video on Demand (VOD) service that’s owned by DStv’s parent company Naspers, has launched a new lower-priced service available exclusively to subscribers on South African mobile network Vodacom. It’s […]
A local startup called Shanda (which means “work” in Shona) is trying to extend this to all types of jobs, It has developed an online freelance platform – www.shanda.co.zw with the sole effort of linking skilled workers together with entities that need some tasks taken care of. Shanda is trying to establish itself as Zimbabwe’s…
POTRAZ chairman Ozias Bvute addresses a Parliamentary Committee POTRAZ, Zimbabwe’s telecommunications regulator has been working on a framework that will govern how various promotions from the country’s mobile network operators […]
Zimbabwe’s mobile data prices are set to have floor and ceiling prices as the government moves to protect subscribers as well as the industry. While responding to a question on […]
The young network has consistently targetted an urban, young audience with distribution and brand growth powered by social media. It will be tying its efforts to Kwesé which has also moulded its content around the huge African huge demographic.
Supa Mandiwanzira addressing Parliament The Zimbabwean government used money from the Universal Services Fund (USF) to partly finance its acquisition of Telecel Zimbabwe. This information was shared by the Minister […]
Both POTRAZ and the Minister are expected to attend an evidentiary hearing scheduled for the 6th of February (today) at 2 pm and offer clarification as to what transpired and highlight how this will affect mobile data use for Zimbabweans.
Zimbabwe’s mobile network operators (MNO) have been facing a lot of criticism for the high cost of mobile data with the peak of this public outrage expressed in January when […]
Zimbabwean Hip Hop star ExQ recently signed a content deal with South African mobile network operator MTN which will share a handful of his hit songs as caller ring tones.
Earlier this year local mobile network operator (MNO) NetOne placed data caps on the WhatsApp, Twitter and Facebook components of its OneFusion package as well as its standalone WhatsApp and […]