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Kombi passenger loses lawsuit against Potraz
A BULAWAYO man has lost a $40 000 lawsuit against the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) which he was suing after sustaining injuries when a kombi he was travellin...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 06:41hrs | 789 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt committed to growth of ICT
INFORMATION Communication and Technology (ICT) minister Kazembe Kazembe yesterday said the country was employing a litany of initiatives to create and promote an enabling environment for internet conn...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 06:54hrs | 262 | by Staff reporter
3 Zimbabwe students win top hackathon award
Three Zimbabwe university students yesterday scooped the first prize for the most creative idea during a hackathon at the 10th World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) forum in Geneva, Switzerla...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 07:19hrs | 114 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate blasts prosecutor for unprofessional behaviour
A HARARE magistrate yesterday blasted as unprofessional the conduct of the State anti-corruption special prosecutor in the case of Postal and Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (Potraz) director-g...Published: 06 Apr 2019 at 08:01hrs | 729 | by Staff reporter
State seeks to rescind Supa Mandiwanzira's acquittal
The State is seeking to petition the High Court for a rescission of the judgment acquitting former minister Supa Mandiwanzira of criminal abuse of office charges that was delivered on Wednesday. ...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 06:29hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
Potraz adopts new tariff model
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) has moved away from a fixed model for determining the various tariffs for telecommunications operators to a flexible model. ...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 06:45hrs | 239 | by Staff reporter
Supa Mandiwanzira acquitted
Former Minister Supa Mandiwanzira heaved a sigh of relief yesterday after the High Court acquitted him on one of the criminal abuse of office charges involving a $218 million auditing contract signed ...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 06:40hrs | 699 | by Staff reporter
NetOne hikes prices too
Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) has approved request made by state-owned mobile operator NetOne to increase tariffs effective 1 April 2019, ...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 22:15hrs | 1053 | by Staff reporter
Sadc should harmonise data regulations
ZIMBABWE has made an indelible mark in the regional telecommunications industry, championing various Sadc postal sector reform initiatives which will see the sector leveraging on e-commerce and innova...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 17:48hrs | 72 | by Staff reporter
Call for Zimbabwe banks to embrace digital technologies
The banking sector has been called upon to embrace digital technologies which will enhance strategic partnerships and ensure efficient services to clients. The call was made at the 25th WSBI Africa Re...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 22:54hrs | 234 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe internet service providers peg services in US$
ZIMBABWE's major internet service providers have pegged their broadband services in United States dollars in response to measures announced in the 2019 Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) presented in Feb...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 22:49hrs | 894 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean mobile network operators, Potraz on collision course over pricing
Zimbabwean mobile network operators (MNOs) are up in arms with the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) over the ICT industry regulator's alleged intransigence o...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 15:37hrs | 515 | by Staff reporter
Potraz boss temporarily gets passport back
Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) director-general Gift Machengete, who is facing charges of contravening the Procurement Act, on Monday successfully applied for ...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 06:44hrs | 66 | by Staff reporter
Special prosecutor in no-show at Potraz boss trial
Anti-corruption special prosecutor Thabani Mpofu, who is handling the trial of Postal and Telecommunication Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) director-general Gift Machengete, failed to appear...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 06:25hrs | 472 | by Staff reporter
Potraz board okays tariff increases
THE Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) board is said to have agreed in principle to a tariff adjustment by the country's mobile network operators (MNOs).Th...Published: 24 Mar 2019 at 18:43hrs | 1453 | by Staff reporter
Potraz brings toll free platforms to rural folk
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) has extended the toll-free platform number 112 to people who want to report all emergencies, like accidents, floods or sickn...Published: 24 Mar 2019 at 14:13hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
Supa Mandiwanzira's passport return bid deferred
A HARARE magistrate deferred until next week a decision on whether to release a passport to ex-Cabinet minister Supa Mandiwanzira, facing charges of criminal abuse of office. Mandiwanzira, who...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 21:31hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
New telecoms tariffs loom
CONSUMERS of telecommunications services must brace for a significant increase in tariffs, which will further eat into their pockets.The director-general of the Postal and Telecommunications R...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 16:23hrs | 486 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe telecom companies being ditched by foreign partners
Zimbabwe's telecommunications companies are being deserted by their foreign partners that service and upgrade their systems due to inability to meet payment obligations in foreign currency. Te...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:20hrs | 471 | by Staff reporter
OneMoney records a 32,7% increase in subscribers
NETONE's mobile money platform, OneMoney, recorded a 32,7 percent increase in subscribers to 241 566 in the fourth quarter to December 31, 2018 from 181 990 in the previous quarter, latest data show....Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 19:12hrs | 678 | by Staff reporter
OneMoney debit card use rises
NetOne's mobile money platform, OneMoney, recorded a 32,7 percent increase in subscribers to 241 566 in the fourth quarter to December 31, 2018 from 181 990 in the previous quarter, latest data show. ...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 09:49hrs | 1057 | by Staff reporter
Supa offers $100,000 house to get passport back
Ex-Cabinet minister Supa Mandiwanzira, pictured, - who is facing two counts of criminal abuse of office - has offered to surrender an additional property worth $100 000 as surety in a bid to convince ...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 07:57hrs | 2500 | by Staff reporter
Mobile network operators record 36% revenue jump
ZIMBABWE'S mobile network operators recorded a 36% increase in revenue to $1,1 billion in the full year to December 2018 despite a 25% increase in operating costs, the industry regulator has reported....Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 07:30hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
NetOne outpaces competitors, active subscriber base balloons
STATE-OWNED mobile phone company NetOne recorded a massive growth in active mobile subscriptions in the fourth quarter of 2018, while its two rivals, Telecel and Econet, reported a marginal increase o...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 18:47hrs | 1499 | by Ndou Paul
Government sells NetOne and TelOne
The Government has announced that it is selling its shares in the two giant Telecommunications companies TelOne and NetOne.The Minister of Finance and Economic Development, MthuliNcube told a ...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 09:52hrs | 8595 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Potraz summons Liquid over tariff hike
THE Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) has summoned Zol Zimbabwe for questioning over its unauthorised data tariff increase, NewsDay reported.Zol Zimbabwe,...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:24hrs | 564 | by Staff reporter
Potraz boss wants charges quashed
Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) director-general Gift Machengete, who is facing charges of contravening the Procurement Act, has made an application for excepti...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 06:28hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube wages war against surging inflation
Zimbabwe's annual inflation has risen to a 10-year high since hyperinflation, but month-on-month prices are beginning to drop as monetary reforms aimed at combating inflation, addressing foreign curre...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 18:08hrs | 1001 | by Staff reporter
Consumer rights group to lobby Parly over data bundles costs
A CONSUMER rights' watchdog has launched a campaign against high mobile data costs, after recent reports showed that Zimbabwe had some of the most expensive data tariffs on the continent.This ...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 07:46hrs | 294 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt goes for broke to lure tech tourists to Victoria Falls
Zimbabwe ICT bosses are pulling out all the stops to use a networking event for tech entrepreneurs and investors here to market its tourist hotspot, Victoria Falls, in a bid to boost the number of vis...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 12:35hrs | 1768 | by Staff reporter
Potraz boss's trial in false start
Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Potraz) director-general Gift Kallisto Machengete's $1,4 million graft trial failed to kick off yesterday after he advised the court that he would b...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 12:00hrs | 393 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans demand cheaper internet: #DataMustFall
A campaign has been launched in Zimbabwe calling for telecom providers to reduce how much they charge for internet services, reports ...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 10:12hrs | 1234 | by Staff writer
Mandiwanzira being punished for being 'best minister'
FORMER Information Communication Technology (ICT) minister Supa Mandiwanzira emotionally took to the witness stand Tuesday complaining that he was being persecuted for being one of the best cabinet mi...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 07:07hrs | 1264 | by newzimbabwe
Network disruptions to continue
DISRUPTIONS to telecommunication networks will continue because operators owe millions of dollars to foreign firms for maintaining and upgrading their infrastructure due to the unavailability of forex...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 06:53hrs | 802 | by Staff reporter
Supa Mandiwanzira implicates Mugabe
FORMER President, Robert Mugabe was yesterday implicated in former Minister of ICT and Cyber Security, Supa Mandiwanzira's case of criminal abuse of office.There were claims that the former he...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 12:57hrs | 8114 | by Staff reporter
Supa Mandiwanzira wants to delay trial, says State
THE prosecution has opposed former Information, Communication Technology and Cyber Security Minister Supa Mandiwanzira's application for exception, saying it lacks merit. The Nyanga South Nati...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:10hrs | 200 | by Staff reporter
SRC grilled over $1,2m Potraz loan to Zifa
SPORT and Recreation Council (SRC) director of sport Joseph Muchechetere was yesterday grilled in Parliament over a $1,2 million loan which the SRC sourced from Potraz to fund the Zimbabwe senior nati...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:41hrs | 232 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean community that identifies with SA, Botswana
Arriving at Khalanyoni Business Centre in Plumtree, Mangwe district in Matabeleland South about 200 kilometres south of Bulawayo, one is greeted by a huge election billboard of a beaming President Emm...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 10:05hrs | 2799 | by Staff reporter
Supa Mandiwanzira seeks exception to charges
Former Information Communication Technology and Cyber Security Minister Supa Mandiwanzira, who is facing criminal abuse of office charges, has made an application for exception. He argued on Thursday ...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:02hrs | 263 | by Staff reporter
Fresh cracks emerge in Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF
Fresh fissures have emerged in the ruling Zanu-PF, with disgruntled members of its youth league passing a vote of no confidence on their leader Pupurai Togarepi and four other members of his executive...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 15:05hrs | 7048 | by Staff reporter
'ICT infrastructure key to national development'
GOVERNMENT has identified the development of ICT infrastructure as central to the realisation of Zimbabwe's Vision 2030 by making it a key priority on the nation's developmental agenda. In thi...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 22:55hrs | 105 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe commissions Gache Gache base station
Information and Communications Technology, Postal and Courier Services minister, Kazembe Kazembe has said ICTs were now a basic human right for every citizen.Commissioning the fourth Multi Ope...Published: 02 Feb 2019 at 05:57hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe pushes for increased Internet usage
ICT minister Kazembe Kazembe says government is forging ahead with its plans push to bring high-speed Internet to rural areas around the country in an effort to accelerate economic development....Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 15:13hrs | 387 | by Staff reporter
ICTs key to economic development, says Kazembe
INFORMATION Communication Technology Postal and Courier Services minister Kazembe Kazembe said Information and communications technology (ICTs) are animportant economic development catalyst that s...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 08:27hrs | 133 | by Staff reporter
Prosecutors dodge Mandiwanzira's trial
HARARE regional magistrate, Elijah Makomo on Monday gave prosecutors a tongue lashing after they failed to turn up for former ICT Minister, Supa Mandiwanzira's trial while failing to proffer any reaso...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 08:47hrs | 1198 | by newzimbabwe
MNOs restore full Internet services
THE High Court in Harare yesterday ruled that National Security Minister Owen Ncube had no authority to order a shutdown of Internet services. Service providers immediately restored services. ...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 08:04hrs | 234 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe High Court to rule on Internet suit
THE High Court in Harare will today rule on the legality of the Government's directive to mobile network operators to shut down all internet operations in the country during last week's violent demons...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 08:13hrs | 561 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sued over Internet blackout
Two civic society organisations have dragged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to the High Court following a government decision to completely shut down the Internet twice in a week, following a three-day ...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:56hrs | 7932 | by Staff reporter
'Internet shutdown is unconstitutional,' says Jonathan Moyo
Zimbabwe's mobile phone networks and internet were partially shut down, with one industry source saying the systems had been jammed and many users were complaining of severely limited access.J...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 21:01hrs | 3818 | by Ndou Paul
Zimbabwe internet shutdown confirmed
The government of Zimbabwe has reportedly instructed POTRAZ to shutdown mobile internet access for citizens so as to prevent them from communicating and organizing protests similar to the one that too...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 12:41hrs | 1743 | by Staff reporter
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