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Beitbridge to Victoria Falls fibre optic cable testing completed
IMPLEMENTATION of the Zimbabwe National Broadband Plan (2023–2030) is on course, with a test run for the fibre optic cables that run from Beitbridge to Victoria Falls and Harare having been complete...Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 10:17hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa receives Afreximbank award
STRIVE Masiyiwa, the founder and chairperson of the Econet Group and Cassava Technologies, has expressed his appreciation at the recognition he received at the Afreximbank's Pan-African Business and D...Published: 25 Jun 2023 at 18:21hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Econet partners X to roll out high-speed broadband technology
Google's parent company Alphabet yesterday announced that it has tapped the Econet Group as its partner to launch a new high-speed broadband technology which uses laser beams instead of fibre optic ca...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 08:15hrs | 7 | by Agencies
How Econet made itself indispensable to Zimbabweans
On December 5, 2017, Zimbabwe's two major internet access providers (IAPs), Liquid Telecom and TelOne, suffered breaks in the fibre optic cables that blacked out 90% of the country from the internet f...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 08:07hrs | 2 | by Mike Murenzvi
Potraz boosts Govt's e-learning initiative
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) donated 10 computers and 100 backpacks to five schools here on Wednesday to complement Government's e-learning initiative. ...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Data and Voice Queen B named?
Zimbabwean business tycoon Mutumwa Mawere has suggested that there is a Data and Voice Queen B in Zimbabwe. Mawere threw in the suggestion after Econet Wireless founder Strive Masiyiwa's wife, Ts...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 20:32hrs | 1 | by Ndou Paul
Zimbabwe's Data and Voice Queen B named?
Zimbabwean business tycoon Mutumwa Mawere has suggested that there is a Data and Voice Queen B in Zimbabwe. Mawere threw in the the suggestion after Econet Wireless founder Strive Masiyiwa's wife...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 09:40hrs | 2 | by Ndou Paul
Zimbabwe to expand broadband network investment
The government is targeting to expand investments in the broadband networks by ensuring that more fibre optic cables are laid to connect all towns and districts across the country.The plan is ...Published: 20 Jun 2018 at 10:32hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
TelOne engages communities on vandalism
Integrated telecommunications company, TelOne, has embarked on an "Anti-vandalism" community outreach after vandalism had threatened an upgrade of Zimbabwe's main communication system and exchanges in...Published: 02 Jun 2018 at 15:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is 'new face of the old order', says Chamisa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is not delivering change in the country after the years of Robert Mugabe, a Zimbabwean opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa, has said.He told HARDtalk's Stephen Sacku...Published: 12 May 2018 at 14:13hrs | 3 | by Austin Karonga
Ministers sweat over Mnangagwa deadline
Cabinet ministers are putting in extra hours every day to meet targets set by President Emmerson Mnangagwa as a new work ethic takes root in Government.The Sunday Mail understands most ministe...Published: 10 Dec 2017 at 05:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Baboons force radio station off air
Newly launched YA FM radio station in Zvishavane has been knocked off air amid reports that daring baboons eat parts of the transmission cables.The station's chief executive officer, Munyaradz...Published: 01 Oct 2015 at 06:41hrs | 2 | by Sytaff Reporter
2015 Mid-term Fiscal Policy - full document
Government to increase surtax on second hand vehicles aged more than 5 years from date of manufacture from 25 percent to 35 percent effect from September 1.Royalties on small scale gold miner...Published: 30 Jul 2015 at 15:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim government, Econet cross swords
GOVERNMENT and Econet Wireless Zimbabwe have crossed swords over the former's stated intention to coax investors in the mobile telecommunications sector to share infrastructure, raising a protracted s...Published: 29 Mar 2015 at 09:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Big dreams for Rwanda's ICT sector - Success story is grabbing global attention
"The Internet is a needed public utility as much as water and electricity," declared President Paul Kagame at the Transform Africa summit, held in Kigali, Rwanda's capital city, last October to di...Published: 01 Jul 2014 at 20:32hrs | 18 | by Nirit Ben-Ari
Govt to digitalise the whole of Zimbabwe by 2015
THE Ministry of Information Communication Technology (ICT) intends to digitalise the whole of Zimbabwe by 2015, Minister Nelson Chamisa has revealed.In an interview, Minister Chamisa said his ...Published: 04 Jan 2012 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe connects to undersea broadband network
Two Zimbabwean telecommunications companies have linked up to the SEACOM and EASSy undersea fibre-optic cables. This development is set to bring high speed broadband internet connectivity to the...Published: 17 Feb 2011 at 12:45hrs | 1 | by Byo24News
Montrose Studios to be digitalised
BULAWAYO’s Montrose Studios is going to be digitalised next year. This was revealed by Mr Happison Muchechetere, the chief executive officer (CEO...Published: 13 Dec 2010 at 20:15hrs | 3 | by Byo24
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