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By Guest Author I was recently at a function, also attended by Telecoms Engineers and one of the things that really struck me was how these guys really were spot on with what I previously thought to only exist in the “ICT Domain”. My surprise was short-lived though when someone…

By William Chui What has been suspected for a while now has been confirmed in the recently released POTRAZ Q2 report of 2017: EcoCash is synonymous with mobile money in Zimbabwe. Sitting at a staggering 97.98% of market share for subscribers, the Econet-owned mobile money solution has cemented themselves as…

By Trycolyn Pikirayi They say necessity is the mama of all inventions. As we radically move towards ‘cashlessness’, a move we saw coming but just didn’t anticipate it to be this fast, there’s a constant need to further improve the ‘cashlessness’ experience. Apart from the ‘already existing structures’ like banks…

By Trycolyn Pikirayi So according to the POTRAZ Q2 report, active fixed telephone lines increased by 3.7% from 257,626 to 267,034. And since TelOne is a monopoly (literally) in this field, it follows that we can use it to explain these changes. Active fixed telephone lines as far as POTRAZ…

By William Chui Losing a possession is never easy. Heck, losing anything can cost a tear or two. With the way that we have become so dependent on our devices the loss of a cellphone can severely impact one’s life, not just socially but financially as well. There a few…

By Edwin Chabuka We are extra vigilant with putting heavy security measures on our devices for privacy sake but its actually not such a good idea. If your device is lost or stolen its very difficult to trace the owner and thus leaving the thief to flash the phone deleting…

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By Trycolyn Pikirayi Some interesting stats on the report, just to highlight a few: In Q2 2017, our Mobile Internet data usage increased by 15.8% from 2,688,410GB (Q1) to 3,112,416GB. It also seems people are now interested in Voice calls again, excluding calls on Over The Top (OTT) services such…

By Trycolyn Pikirayi As we go cashless, most of us are forced to go the debit card and mobile money route. Some of us already had bank cards and all, but when things were still ‘normal’, cards were often left to accumulate dust somewhere. People often just used them at…

By Trycolyn Pikirayi I know the hustle of tryna find a place to rent, let alone to buy, can be terrible. Even worse if you don’t have the time to be moving around and checking all prospective places. Of course there are ways such as making use of property agents…