Zimbabwe has the third most expensive mobile data prices in Africa with the cheapest monthly 1 GB data package in the country set at $30.
NetOne’s network optimisation team has invited TechZim on an LTE data speed test tomorrow, Tuesday 20th September from 9am. This follows our report on the state of mobile data speeds […]
Last week we conducted mobile internet speed tests in four different locations across Harare. To say the least, the results were shocking. Like any test, we expected to have a standout […]
Welcome to our SpeedTest Page. The point of this page is to create conversation and raise awareness of mobile internet speeds in Zimbabwe. Hopefully, it will catch the attention of […]
There has been a lot of debate on mobile data bundles lately. The debate has generally been centred around NetOne and its One Fusion and The One data products/promotions. NetOne’s […]
Zimbabwe recorded $387.9 million in diaspora inflows during the first 6 months of 2016, representing a 15% decline in remittances from the $457.8 million registered in the first half of 2015.
The Zimbabwean government will dip into the Universal Services Fund to access finances for the yet to be completed digital migration project.
Recently NetOne released its “The One” mobile internet data bundle product. It is arguably the best mobile internet data plan available right now. We realized the impact of NetOne’s product […]
Internet company Tencent Holdings Ltd. (Tencent) has just edged past telecoms giant China Mobile Ltd. to become the most valuable company in China. According to Bloomberg, Tencent is also the […]
Unfortunately, this was only a 90-day reprieve set to run from the beginning of June to the end of August 2016. The EcoCash team has since reintroduced its merchant payment fees which can go up to $1.95 for a $500 payment.
MMM Nigeria this is how MMM Zimbabwe crashed, very similar to what is happening to you now Earlier today, MMM East Africa, MMM Global Zimbabwe‘s parent organization, released a public […]
For a minimum of 50 cents subscribers can receive 50 MB of data, $1 gets 300 MB daily bundles, or 150 MB weekly with the biggest allocation being 5GB of data for a $5 daily bundle.
A Zimbabwean state official recently racked up a US$200,000 monthly phone bill, an amount that would have been enough to pay 500 teachers.
Zimbabwe’s largest classifieds platform Classifieds.co.zw has introduced a shopping cart as it increases its focus on online shopping.
Econet’s EcoCash released a public statement today distancing itself from MMM Global Zimbabwe and any other illegal activities such as Ponzi schemes. In their public statement, EcoCash reminded us that […]
image credit – Manchester United Facebook Page We recently mentioned how a content sharing deal that had been entered into by Zimbabwe’s national broadcaster ZBC and Econet’s Kwesé Free Sports collapsed […]
As much as MultiChoice is selling these reductions as its way of transferring value to its subscribers (which could also be part of the motivation), it’s likely a response to competition that’s mounting from pay TV alternatives.
The additional infrastructure is expected to give NetOne the capacity to connect 10 million subscribers at a time. NetOne currently has 4.3 million active subscribers and it plans to sign on 5 million more subscribers.
image credit: marketingland.com Google recently announced that it will be punishing mobile websites that have interstitial ads as of January, 2017. Interstitial ads are ads that show or “pop-up” while […]
However, the most pronounced increase is evident in the year on year comparison of mobile data consumption. In the first quarter of 2015, mobile data use stood at 750.154 million megabytes. That number has since jumped by 101.3% to the 1.510 billion megabytes total recorded for March 2016.
If you want to access Kwese Sports on ZBC these are the 5 things you need to know about this local content deal and how to enjoy it.
ZB Bank has made a smart play for retail financial services growth with its agent banking model, but its 9,000 agents total is questionable.
According to the latest quarterly report from the telecoms regulator POTRAZ, in the first quarter of 2016, the number of active LTE subscriptions in Zimbabwe increased by 23% reaching 152,782 from the previous quarter’s total of 124,179 active subscriptions.
Mandiwanzira pointed out that while he was yet to meet with the telecoms regulator POTRAZ to get a full explanation for the suspensions, his own interpretation so far was that this could be the regulator’s response to the mobile networks’ attempts to fight a tariff reduction while offering their services at a discount.
It has been a while since we have written about Rocket Internet in Zimbabwe or their wider African operations. That doesn’t mean they haven’t been active. A lot has happened […]
There’s been a bit of confusion about what was terminated and what is still active on each of the mobile networks, so here’s a look at what each of these operators has since suspended.
However, even with the new look and the potential to lock certain services like the sale of prepaid electricity, OneWallet is still struggling to grow, failing to even match the subscriber growth rate that NetOne has recorded over the past year which is key in providing a pool for new user signups.
Steward Bank is now opening at least 3,000 new bank accounts a day, the bank’s CEO, Lance Mambondiani told Techzim recently. We interview Mambondiani at the launch the company’s new Incubation Pod center at […]