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Cheap mobile and fintech innovator a solution for the Zimbabwe market
Greydot Telecommunications Zimbabwe, a subsidiary of Greydot Telecommunications Africa, is making significant strides in the telecommunications and fintech landscape across Southern Africa. Establishe...Published: 27 Oct 2024 at 14:32hrs | 810 | by Staff reporter
Potraz raises red flag over impact of power cuts on telcos
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) has expressed serious concerns regarding the ongoing power outages that threaten to disrupt the country's telecommunications...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 08:58hrs | 84 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to fine telcos over poor service delivery
Telecommunications companies and internet service providers in Zimbabwe now face fines of up to US$5,000 for poor service delivery, following new regulations introduced by the Minister of Information ...Published: 09 Sep 2024 at 08:05hrs | 184 | by Staff reporter
Telcos revenue rises 98% first quarter
In its 2024 abridged postal and telecommunications sector performance report, POTRAZ said in the period under review, MNOs earned Z$2,27 trillion (approximately ZiG$910,46 million) from Z$1,15 trillio...Published: 22 Jun 2024 at 11:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Revised Starlink Policy for Sustainable Growth - A dedication to Eng. Chemist Siziba
Honorable Minister of Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services, all protocols observed, please receive a request from a group of ...Published: 23 Mar 2024 at 07:04hrs | 49 | by Robert Ndlovu
Elon Musk's Starlink eyes Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE'S telecoms sector faces massive disruption with the anticipated entrance of SpaceX's Starlink, the global satellite internet service giant linked to US tech billionaire Elon Musk into the cou...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt defends mobile phone tariff hike
The 100 percent tariff increases approved by the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) will still see Zimbabweans enjoying cheaper data compared to the regional cost,...Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 04:44hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Potraz blocks US$ tariff increases
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) has prohibited mobile service providers from adjusting tariffs in United States dollars (USD). Potraz, which recent...Published: 30 Oct 2023 at 05:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporte
Starlink : A potential digital lifeline for rural Zimbabwe
In a world where connectivity is a lifeline for information, education, and economic opportunities, the promise of Starlink, SpaceX's ambitious satellite internet project, shines brightly for rural an...Published: 26 Oct 2023 at 05:30hrs | | by Robert Ndlovu
Potraz approves two-fold tariff rise for telcos
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) has given its approval for a twofold increase in the tariffs of the country's telecommunications companies when billed in Zi...Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Starlink: A Potential Lifeline for Rural Zimbabwe
In a world where connectivity is a lifeline for information, education, and economic opportunities, the promise of Starlink, SpaceX's ambitious satellite ...Published: 16 Oct 2023 at 04:50hrs | | by Robert Ndlovu
Zimra confiscates 80 000 smuggled phones
A Zambian telecommunications company, Rock Telecom Limited, had 80,000 mobile phones valued at US$352,930 confiscated by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) due to a failed smuggling attempt....Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean business fears its government will interfere with the exchange rate
ZIMBABWEAN businesses fear that President Emerson Mnangagwa's administration, which is blaming foreign companies of inflating prices ahead of a key election in August, could resort to interfering with...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 06:52hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's mobile network operators now frequently adjusting tariffs
ZIMBABWE'S mobile network operators have reviewed their tariffs in local Zimdollar currency as the sector battles to offset rising costs and maintain operations in the face of inflationary pressures t...Published: 25 Jun 2023 at 18:22hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe business jittery as electioneering goes a gear up
The business community fears that the government could resort to exchange rate control to manage inflation and price increases. Picture: Shepherd TozvirevaZimbabwean businesses fear that Presi...Published: 25 Jun 2023 at 09:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Telcos hikes Zimdollar tariffs
ZIMBABWE'S mobile network operators have reviewed their tariffs in Zimdollar as the sector battles to offset rising costs and maintain operations in the face of inflationary pressures triggered by the...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Johannes Marisa
Telecel denies corporate rescue proceedings
EMBATTLED telco, Telecel Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd (Telecel) has dismissed its placement under "corporate rescue proceedings" first announced in a notice in the Government Gazette dated May 12, 2023....Published: 24 May 2023 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe and SA telcos hit hard by worsening energy crisis in the region
Telecommunication companies have been hit hard by the worsening energy crisis in the southern Africa region, which has seen daily national power grid electricity outages of up to 16 hours.The ...Published: 22 May 2023 at 19:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Global technology guru dates Zimbabwe
RENOWNED technologist and founder of artificial intelligence company, Omelas, Evanna Hu will visit Zimbabwe to engage stakeholders on the rollout of 5G technologies as part of celebrations to mark the...Published: 08 May 2023 at 06:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe telcos in another staggered price review
ZIMBABWE'S main telecommunication companies are set for another price adjustment on April 1, 2023, as operator battle to offset rising operational costs.The telecoms industry will review tarif...Published: 21 Mar 2023 at 20:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe telcos hike bundle prices
Zimbabwe's telecommunications sector has reviewed its bundle prices, both in domestic (ZW$) and United States dollars (US$), to align with rising operation costs.This comes two weeks after the...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 19:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vodacom defends appointment of Zimbabwean
Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub has defended the appointment of Sitholizwe Mdlalose as managing director of its South African operations, saying the company appoints the best talent that reflects its...Published: 19 May 2022 at 19:34hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
SA business group unhappy with rise of Zimbabwean expats
THE appointment of Sitholizwe Mdlalose as chief executive of South Africa's telecoms giant Vodacom has triggered xenophobic reactions after the country's Black Business Council (BBC) demanded that loc...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:13hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Potraz targets rural internet access
POSTAL and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) is focusing in increasing Internet access in the rural areas.Presenting the Postal and Telecommunications 2021 fourth quarte...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Potraz defends data tariff hikes
THE Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Potraz) yesterday justified data tariff hikes by telecommunications operators saying the telcos were actually operating below profitable thresho...Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Telecel's monumental collapse
TELECEL Zimbabwe's troubles have continued to mount with indications that the telecoms firm is now recruiting graduate trainees to plug the staff exodus necessitated by the company's unsustainable deb...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 21:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trial of ex-NetOne boss in false start
THE trial of former NetOne chief executive Lazarus Muchenje and three former subordinates on charges of entering into an agreement with a Mauritanian firm for the provision of virtual lines without bo...Published: 26 Jan 2022 at 04:43hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean telcos planning tariff hike
Like most sectors of the economy, the telecommunications industry is expected to review its pricing in the coming days in response to rising operating costs, analysts and industry sources say....Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Econet eyes 5G roll out
ZIMBABWE Stock Exchange-listed mobile network operator Econet Wireless reported a strong performance for the half-year to August 31, 2021, with a ZW$7,9 billion profit in historical terms, up from a l...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:30hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Voice, data tariffs go up
THE Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) has given telecom operators the nod to increase out-of-bundle tariffs by an average of 30% as the industry continues to batt...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:18hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Telcos hike tariffs by more than 30%
THE Postal and Telecommunication Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) has granted telecom operators the go ahead to increase out-of-bundle tariffs by an average of 30 percent as the industry cont...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe telcos facing resistance to more tariff increases
ZIMBABWE'S telecommunications firms desperately want to increase tariffs to counter rising costs stemming from the huge gulf between the official exchange rate and the one prevailing on the parallel m...Published: 24 Aug 2021 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Potraz sweats over tariff hike
ZIMBABWE'S telecommunications regulator is combing through tariff hike proposals put forward by operators to strike a balance between protecting hard-pressed consumers and securing the viability of an...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Telcos target rural population
Telecommunication companies are exploring new and cheap ways of connecting marginalised areas in support of the Government's agenda to develop a digital economy.Under the National Development ...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Push for forex-indexed tariffs for telecoms sector
THE government should allow telecommunication companies to charge some of their products and services in hard currency to allow them to repay mounting debts, meet foreign supplier obligations, and upg...Published: 01 Aug 2021 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
US$18m tender scandal rocks Office of President
THE Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) has been implicated in a multi-million-dollar tender scandal after top bureaucrats tried to smuggle a losing bidder through the back door, the Zimbabwe In...Published: 25 Jun 2021 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's telcos hit by credit crunch
THE Postal and Telecommunication Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) says a credit crunch and foreign currency challenges affected network expansion in the sector during the first quarter of thi...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 07:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's telco regulator takes bold steps towards greater digital inclusion
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for African governments to pursue rapid digital transformation.Digitisation has the ability to transform economies and people's liv...Published: 19 Apr 2021 at 19:32hrs | | by Angela Collins
NetOne boss abandons application
NETONE chief executive officer, Lazarus Muchenje, yesterday abandoned an application for exception to one of the charges in which he is alleged to have entered into an agreement with a Mauritanian fir...Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Experts urge bold steps to revitalize Zim's telcos as sector battles multiple challenges
MOBILE telecom operators adjusted their promotional bundle prices this week as the sector battles multiple challenges spurred by rising input costs that industry experts fear have pushed the sector to...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 11:32hrs | | by Agencies
Former NetOne boss trial date set
THE trial of former NetOne chief executive Lazarus Muchenje and three former subordinates has been set for next month. Muchenje and the trio are accused of entering into an agreement with a Ma...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:15hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar will maintain a 'fragile stability' this year report
ZIMBABWE's currency will maintain a "fragile stability" this year, continuing from the volatilities that haunted the domestic unit even after the introduction of theforeign currency auction system...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 06:11hrs | | 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 | 1 | by Agencies
Ex-NetOne boss Muchenje faces four charges
FORMER NetOne chief executive, Lazarus Muchenje, will now stand trial on four different charges where he is jointly charged with other company employees on criminal abuse of office. This comes after t...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
NetOne commissions base station in Matobo
Mobile telecommunications company, NetOne, has commissioned a base station at Silonkwe Primary School in Matobo bringing connectivity to more 40 000 villagers in Matabeleland South who for a long time...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 21:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls gets second ICT hub
VICTORIA Falls is set to get a second state-of-the-art Information Communication Technology (ICT) hub after a leading hospitality group, Love for Africa donated the facility. The solar-powered...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Econet hikes mobile data tariffs
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe (Econet), the country's largest mobile telecom operator, has adjusted data bundle tariffs by 60 percent after receiving the go-ahead from the industry regulator early this mon...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 15:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar return: Beware the cobra effect
Last month, the government took all and sundry by surprise when it banned the use of multi-currencies in all local transactions and reintroduced the Zimdollar; abandoned due hyperinflation in 2009....Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 08:24hrs | | by Cliff Chiduku
Govt, parastatals owe TelOne $93m in unpaid bills
Telone trimmed its debtors' book by 7% from $162 million in 2017 to $151 million in 2018, but is still struggling to recover debts owed by government departments and parastatals totalling $93 million ...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 08:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Econet showcases smart, cutting-edge products
LEADING mobile network operator Econet Wireless is back at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) this year showcasing its growing range of smart consumer and business products to an even wider ...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
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