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By William Chui If you are a Zimbabwean motorist (well, no, just about anyone who uses the road) you’ll still be heaving a sigh of relief that the police have disappeared from the road. So menacing had they become that court cases were even in the process of being lodged…

By Trycolyn Pikirayi The third Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) telecoms report of the year (Q3) was released yesterday. By the way, the Q3 report covers the period between 01 July 2017 and 30 September 2017. Amidst all the statistics of interest to us, internet penetration, in…

By Leonard Sengere In POTRAZ’s recently released Q3 report it was revealed that mobile money is contributing more to Mobile Network Operator (MNO) revenues than ever before. This is compounded by the steady decline voice is contributing to revenues. All the three mobile operators, Econet, Telecel and Netone recorded growth…

By Trycolyn Pikirayi Online shopping like everything else in life, has it’s pros and cons. Pros in this case would be having to skip on the moving around part and just getting to the buying, hence all the other advantages that come with that such as saving time and increased…

By Leonard Sengere Multichoice Zimbabwe held its content summit today with the aim of encouraging local producers to create films and television programmes that are of a standard high enough to be showcased on DStv. A number of players in the television and film industry were present. Presenting at the…

By Tinashe Nyahasha So my colleague shared what they did when the internet went off yesterday and they asked all of us to share in the comments what we did. In the confusion following the re-connection and trying to investigate what really happened (we are still probing at this: dog…

By William Chui Still fresh in the minds of many Zimbabweans is how the Zimbabwe National Army staged a ‘coup-not-coup’ and managed to “remove the criminals around the President”. So successful were they at their whole effort that our dear President, who’d be calling the shots for 37 years, opted…

By Trycolyn Pikirayi If you use the internet much, no doubt you were affected by yesterday’s huge internet outage. If you didn’t experience it like most if not all Telecel users then at least you somehow heard or read about it. Also, if your dealings were/are local, Telecel user or…

By Guest Author When processes are done online; time is saved, queues reduced, distance barriers and human elements like corruption eradicated. The internet is ubiquitous and an ideal technological platform to make life easier for all of us. This also applies when you want to start your own business. A…