Technology

By L.S.M Kabweza As you may know, the internet was mostly down in Zimbabwe today. The main cause as we have established so far is that a Liquid Telecom fibre link supplying most of the country’s internet (directly to Liquid and ZOL customers, but also indirectly through leased capacity to…

By Tinashe Nyahasha How on earth did we survive before the internet? We got to taste it in Zimbabwe today. The internet suddenly went awol and there was no explanation from anyone. The only internet we know that was working was Telecel and NetOne and TelOne in drips and drabs.…

By Rufaro Madamombe So today, the internet went down in Zimbabwe from around 11:45 to 17:17 and this was due to a core platform failure on the Liquid Telecom network which is the backbone of internet service providers in Zimbabwe. I’ve always known that most of what I do for…

By William Chui After an internet outage that hit Zimbabwe’s largest internet access provider, Liquid Telecoms Zimbabwe, it seems that state operator TelOne has also been affected. At this moment it is still unknown as to what the cause of the problem is, but ZOL’s Customer Care support line states…

By James Chibwana This morning, at around 11:30 AM Liquid Telecom Zimbabwe, an Econet Wireless Zimbabwe subsidiary had a major fibre outage that affected the bulk of Zimbabwe’s internet users. As at the time of writing, Liquid, ZOL, Econet are down, while NetOne, which probably was riding on Liquid at…

By Garikai Dzoma Last month I wrote about the awesomeness of SmartDNS‘s DNS and VPN services. A lot has happened since then in the political arena. Not least of which is the fact that we have a new President; something that was unthinkable when I wrote the piece. The world…

By Tinashe Nyahasha I have been to a number of business conventions and conferences in Zimbabwe and in most cases I have been left with the question: on what planet does Zimbabwe reside? Developments in tech have been largely ignored in our economy more so by regulator types. That is…

By Leonard Sengere We all know that that’s where it’s headed. Sports on the internet. Entertainment via the internet. These satellite options are old hat, streaming on the internet is the future. As it is with all media content, there will be piracy, regardless of the distribution method. As cassettes…

By Trycolyn Pikirayi Bitcoin (or its technology) is the new sensation on the block. Well, not so new since it’s been around since 2009 but until 2015/16 it didn’t have as much traction or attention as it has now. In Zimbabwe, 2017’s cash crisis, bond notes et al., are what…

By Leonard Sengere It’s all happening. The international community is ready to engage Zimbabwe again. Powerful nations and organisations in both the west and the east express optimism in the future of our nation. IMF In order for the country to rise again funding is needed and this is where…