Search results for: “Econet”
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NetOne Signs A $71 Million Deal With Huawei
NetOne has signed a deal with one of the leading tech companies in the world, Huawei Technologies International. The deal (a funding agreement to be precise) of $71 million was signed […] more
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What Will Work Best For MNOs In 2018, Competition or Collaboration?
“Competition makes us faster; Collaboration makes us better.” Anonymous To compete or to collaborate? To say these are mutually exclusive would be quite inaccurate. However, it’s important to note that […] more
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What The Heck Are Content Bundles For?
You know how every time you come across Option 2 aka “Content Bundle” whenever you’re trying to check your WhatsApp or Facebook bundle balance? On your Econet line that is… […] more
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Infrastructure Sharing: This One Thing Can And Should Be Finalised In 2018
Most of us are a little optimistic about the future of this country of ours. We are hopeful that things will change for the better in the coming year as […] more
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Don’t Get Your Hopes Up. New OPPO Store In Harare Has No OPPO…Yet
If you are in Harare and you frequent the 1st street/George Silundika section of the city you might have seen a nice looking green sign with OPPO written in white. […] more
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Kwese Advances On Zimbabwe, Country To Be Second Market To Get Kwese Play
Back in September Econet Media launched Kwese Play with the first market to get the product being South Africa. The service is not available in any other country to date […] more
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First Mutual Got Approval To Acquire NicozDiamond: Led To High Trade In Nicoz Shares
In what has been a bit of a roller-coaster, the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) Industrial index shed 1.36% yesterday mainly due to Econet’s losses. Since the transition of power from […] more
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What’s All This Fuss About Net Neutrality And What Does The US Ruling Mean For Us
Have you been seeing all the talk about net neutrality all over the internet and wondering what it is all about? Yes? Then you have come to the right place. […] more
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We Should Commend POTRAZ, The Telecoms Regulatory Authority For Holding First AGM
We have been crying for it and it’s here now: accountability and transparency from parastatals. Well, at least one parastatal has heeded the call and that’s progress in the right […] more
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Social Media Isn’t for that. You Must Stop It!
So I know of late I’ve been on and on about how great social media is, even recommended it to the government. I mean it’s no secret that social media […] more
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ZSE Drops By 10% In Pres. Mnangagwa’s Second Week, Foreigners Still Net Buyers
In the first week of President Mnangagwa’s administration the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) registered growth as the downward trend the exchange had been on reversed. Prior to the swearing in […] more
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Telecel and NetOne A Big Let Down To Government According To Chinamasa
From January to September 2017 the Government of Zimbabwe collected 2.6% more revenue than the targeted revenue collection. They performed better than their budgeted expectation. However parastatals and state owned […] more
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Why A Lot of Africans Are Not On the Internet. The Answer is Not As Obvious
One thought that was shared at AfricaCom 2017 last month that kept nagging me was that of why the internet penetration rate was still low in Africa. This is particularly […] more
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The Status of Mobile Penetration And Active Mobile Subscriptions in Zimbabwe (Potraz 2017 Q3 Report)
The Q3 2017 Telecoms report by the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) reported an increase in Zimbabwe’s mobile penetration rate from 97% in Q2 to 100.5% in Q3. […] more
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Competition Policy for Zimbabwe launched today… even the universe endorses it!
The day we decide to launch a Competition Policy for Zimbabwe is the day we have a huge internet outage, what are the odds??? I’m sure you’re wondering what the connection […] more
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NetOne, PowerTel And Telecel Hold Their Own During Zimbabwe Internet Outage…
Earlier today Zimbabweans struggled to access the internet after Liquid Telecoms Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe’s biggest Internet Access Provider, lost connectivity, thus causing people to relive what seems like life in the […] more
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Zimbabwe Internet Outage: Here’s What Happened
On Tuesday 5 December 2017 Zimbabwe experienced a huge internet outage that affected most of the country. Techzim reached out to various sources in the industry to establish what really happened […] more
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Can The Zimbabwean Economy Function Without The Internet?
We were without internet access for almost six hours today, from 11:45am to about 17:17pm. The outage was due to a core platform failure on the Liquid Telecom network which in turn […] more
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BREAKING: It’s Not Just You. Internet Goes Down In Zimbabwe
This morning, at around 11:30 AM Liquid Telecom Zimbabwe, an Econet Wireless Zimbabwe subsidiary had a major fibre outage that affected the bulk of Zimbabwe’s internet users. As at the […] more
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Zim Stock Exchange (ZSE) On The Rebound As Foreigners Buy More Shares
The self correction we were witnessing on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) seems to be over as the ZSE is now rising. The stock market capitalisation had reached $15 billion […] more
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This Might Be The Most Effective Way To Manage Your Data Usage Yet
We love our smartphones. They provide a portal to the world at large. We get to connect with people gazillion kilometres away via the internet. Computers provide the same access […] more
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We underestimated Cybercrime in Zimbabwe, it’s time to be woke now…
The appointment of a fully-fledged Minister of Cyber Security, Threat Detection and Mitigation was met with a lot of scepticism. This was mainly driven by the perceived duplication of responsibilities […] more
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Bond Note:USD Exchange Rate Falls, ZSE Drops $6b In 8 Days As Markets Self Correct
We have been religiously following the events on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) over the last few weeks, for good reason. The experts say the stock market reaction is one of […] more
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Communications regulator lobbying for data to last for 3 years in South Africa
So it seems South Africa is much more serious about their #DataMustFall campaign than I thought. Just read an article on MyBroadband on how Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) […] more
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A local firm invents a ‘self-charging’ battery. Could this be the future for Zimbabwe?
We bumped into something interesting on LinkedIn. You know Cybercard Enterprise Solutions (CyberBiz) right? If not then you should know its CEO at least. We last wrote about it in 2015 […] more
