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By Edwin Chabuka So WhatsApp announced earlier this year that it will stop support for quite a long list of devices. In that same regard a great many individuals with Windows Phone devices have the recurring dilemma of why app updates and new apps take just so long to land…

By Nigel Gambanga In the Zimbabwean cryptocurrency space, there have been a couple of players that have been focused on Bitcoin as a currency alternative. On this list, there’s Bitmari – a startup that has been laying the groundwork to be the country’s first Bitcoin remittance startup. While the startup…

By Batsirai Chikadaya According to POTRAZ’s Q2 2016 sectoral report, there are 4,611 2G base stations active in Zimbabwe. Between 1 April – 30 June 2016, 298 2G base stations were commissioned to bring the total number to 4,611 from 4,313 the previous quarter. As it stands there are more…

By Nigel Gambanga Telecash, Telecel’s mobile money service and the second m-money network in Zimbabwe lost almost half of its subscribers in 3 months. Articles appeared first on Techzim;Telecash, Telecel’s mobile money service losses almost half of its subscribers in 3 months …read more Read more here:: Techzim Feed…

By Edwin Chabuka Le Eco might not be a familiar name in the tech realm, but this company is surely hellbent on stepping into the scene to challenge the established brands on innovation, quality and affordability. In a keynote event held on October 19 in the US, the company unveiled…

By Nigel Gambanga The Coca Cola Company recently gave notice of its plans to terminate its bottling deals with Delta Corporation and its associate, Schweppes Zimbabwe Limited. This comes after the regulatory approval of the $104 billion merger between Anheuser-Busch InBev NV/SA (AB InBev) and SABMiller Plc, which is also…

By Batsirai Chikadaya The CBZ Bank in partnership with Empowered Life Trust will be launching a Youth Empowerment Program (YEP) from the 1st of November 2016. We first noticed the program through a flyer posted on its facebook page and were immediately interested to know more about it. So we…

By Nigel Gambanga According to information shared by the regulator, POTRAZ, during the period a total of US$161.5 million in revenue was realised, down from the US$167.7 million recorded in the first quarter of 2016. Articles appeared first on Techzim;Fewer calls mean way less money for Zimbabwean mobile operators as…

By Batsirai Chikadaya Recently we wrote on ZOL chasing TelOne’s ADSL market in its quest for growth & dominance. This has been characterized by the very public ad war between the two companies which we feel is slowly becoming an eyesore. Nonetheless, thanks to POTRAZ’s recently released 2016 Q2 Sectoral…

By Batsirai Chikadaya While reading through POTRAZ’s Q2 sectoral report we had a keen interest in NetOne and Econet’s LTE developments in Zimbabwe owing to our recent speed tests over the past couple of weeks. The first bit of interesting information was that the number of LTE eNodeBs (base stations)…