With 100 million users in its bag, a Chinese messaging app called Weixen decided to change its name to WeChat. A globally recognisable English name, an already globally recognisable look […]
There are more people signing up for mobile connections but fewer calls are being made by these same subscribers. This fact has been expressed POTRAZ’s Sector Performance Report for the […]
Let’s all take a minute to celebrate the sweet spot mobile subscribers are in right now. As the battle for voice call revenue among network subscribers rages on, each network […]
It’s not very often that I buy the newspaper. More so on a Sunday. I mean I can get all the news I want online. WhatsApp and Facebook bundles allow […]
For a country with an almost US$4 Billion deficit (basically we import a whole lot more than we export) chances are higher that we are buying imported goods when we […]
Free public WiFi access provider Saisai Wireless has been selected as one of the 40 finalists from across Africa to pitch at this year’s DEMO Africa event. This will be […]
After writing the “To learn code, teach code” article last week, I got emails from a few people asking me to teach them code. Some offered to teach me how […]
Jason Njoku, the Nigerian co-founder of iROKO Partners, speaks his mind. Often enough and candid enough he has enough people criticising him, especially in Nigeria itself. Take this piece he wrote in January this year […]
In this podcast we discussed the recent Facebook emotions experiment, the Mxit decline, the Telecel WhatsApp Bundles, and the exclusion of private companies retailing zesa prepaid electricity tokens, with a […]
Yesterday mobile network operator Telecel Zimbabwe gave oral evidence to a Parliamentary committee on Communication, Technology, Postal and Courier Services. According to a report in the Herald the operator released figures […]
I have never really been a user of Mxit. But I have always known that to be more about my age than Mxit’s actual usefulness. School & college going users […]
Econet Wireless recently introduced a new suite of bundles that offer voice and data at a discounted rates. The product, called Bundles of Joy, also has unlimited local SMSes for […]
My overweening late Uncle William was a devoted conspiracy theorist. His eyes would sparkle in those dark late summer nights when we sat in the gazebo, roasting sweet-potatoes on the […]
A while ago we published an article on how local mailing classifieds list Dipleague was being imitated by other “Dipleagues.” These other versions, available on different platforms though mostly social media, […]
To paraphrase the Bible: There is an App for everything under the sun and an App for every activity under heaven. There is an App to App your friends with, […]
I had the had the thrilling and awesome privilege to chair the second day of the 7th edition of the Mobile Money and Digital Payments Africa 2014, in Johannesburg at […]
Exciting news out of South Africa advise that MTN SA have launched a Visa card for their Mobile Money uses, following in suite of mobile payments pioneer M-PESA who did […]
If you’re anything like us here at the office, we have a hard time trying to remember what code it is to top up airtime on each network, send a […]
Telecel Zimbabwe‘s Chief Commercial Officer, has resigned. Suddenly. A number of trusted sources inside the company told us and confirmed that an email to staff was sent out yesterday evening by the Telecel […]
Beans don’t yet sing or pay bills (sorry Jack and the Beanstalk fans). This is just an advocacy article, hoping to stop SMS and email messages that are unnecessary. Why […]