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By Garikai Dzoma REF: I HOPE YOUR TIDAL WAVE PROJECT FAILS At the end of last month you, Mr. Carter/Jay Z and your cabal of musicians launched your music streaming service which you dubbed Tidal, no doubt an allegorical reference to the Waves that you thought it would make in…
By L.S.M Kabweza The Herald reports that Reuters affiliated online news agency, The Source, this week failed to have their case referred to the Constitutional Court. The referral case was heard by Justice Joseph Musakwa (the same judge that granted an order to have them raided by Econet) and refused…
By Nigel Gambanga Any 2015 conversation around ADSL technology always has the same undertone. A lot of people, learned or otherwise, think the tech belongs to the 1980s. To be honest, in the face of rapidly changing communications standards and delivery options it’s hard to bring up colonial copper cabling…
By Nigel Gambanga Facebook and WhatsApp. That doesn’t sum up Zimbabwean smartphone access patterns, but it sure as hell comes close to telling a big part of it. It’s not the mobile operators’ faults either, the three of them only introduced the Over The Top Services of WhatsApp and Facebook…
By Nigel Gambanga Here’s something that ought to warm the hearts of everyone who looks at MultiChoice and thinks Monopoly. News coming out of Nigeria (sorry, its not Zimbabwe) is that a Justice in a federal High Court granted an order of interim injunction restraining MultiChoice from enforcing its increase…
By Nigel Gambanga Just last week we were talking about the new unlimited data offer from Powertel that is supposed to start a return to glory and hopefully, good graces with disgruntled clients for the Internet Access Provider. It turns out, Africom also introduced its own special offer on data…
By Garikai Dzoma One of the advantages that was and is still given for Cloud Computing is that it allows home and business computer users to operate freely without the need to be that aware of the technical details or even the name of the operating system they are running.…
By Nigel Gambanga Remember how local Internet Service Provider, Powertel, made the biggest pricing mistake in telecoms last year when it scrapped its superstar unlimited package and opted to introduce a usage-based system instead. Well, the ISP seems to be fighting for customers’ attention with its new unlimited package. Before…
By Nigel Gambanga DStv Zimbabwe has just announced that it has suspended payments through mobile money service EcoCash, something that ought to put a damper on any attempts at beating holiday queues through m-commerce convenience. According to a post published on the DStv Facebook page, this temporary disruption has been…
By Nigel Gambanga Tomorrow is Good Friday, so a lot of us are expect one obvious thing to happen tomorrow, the start of the Easter Holidays and a long weekend that everyone looking forward to a Monday-off will appreciate. But there’s more to Good Friday, well for local telecoms at…