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Mozambique’s Vodacom cuts of TMcel in a fight that’s eerily familiar
Starting tomorrow, Thursday 17 June, Mozambicans with TMcel lines will no longer be able to call their counterparts who are on the Vodacom network. This is because Vodacom has decided that it will cut...
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Internet usage keeps breaking records according to POTRAZ’s Q1 2021 report
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) has released the sector performance statement for Q1 2021. Now, this isn’t the full report, but more a highlight of what...
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Women only make up 41.3% of mobile phone subscriptions in Zimbabwe?!
Yesterday, the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe released a state of the sector statement. That document was pretty brief and we were waiting for the more detailed report...
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Telecel lost 20% of its subscribers between December 2020 & March 2021
The country’s smallest mobile network operator (MNO) Telecel’s spiral continued into Q1 2021 according to the latest POTRAZ sector performance report. Telecel lost a staggering 20% of its subscribers...
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Zimbabwe versus South African WhatsApp data bundles
WhatsApp data bundles are a practice I don’t agree with, however, no matter what I think they are a part of our lives. One thing I have noticed though is that whenever I am in a group with ordinary...
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The 30% data, voice & bundle tariff hike had POTRAZ’s blessing
In news that you probably know, because NetOne customers are already feeling the brunt of voice, data, and SMS tariff hikes, the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ)...
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Econet, Telecel & NetOne added 52 new base stations in Q2 2021
Zimbabwe’s mobile network infrastructure saw 52 new base stations according to the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe’s (POTRAZ) Q2 2021 sector performance report. All of...
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Let us discuss the impact of the airtime recharge card phase out
In Liam Neeson’s voice, “whoever you are, wherever you are, if you’re participating in the foreign currency parallel market, we will find out how you are doing it and we will kill it, the loophole...
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Econet, NetOne, Telecel operating costs growing faster than revenues
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) released the sector performance report for the third quarter of 2021. One of the areas of concern is that of money, money,...
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RETRACTION :Telecel IS NOT shutting down
Earlier today we published an article titled “Telecel forced to shut down! Why and why now?” on the Techzim website. We are retracting that article. Potraz is not forcing Telecel to shut down like we...
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POTRAZ shares updates on infrastructure sharing. Econet, NetOne, Telecel...
Ah, the infrastructure sharing saga. For a long time, the government through the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (POTRAZ) pushed for it but it took many years for any deal to be...
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Telecel now getting only 64 cents from each customer per month
The Postal and Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe recently released the sector report for Q1 2022. There isn’t much in there that will surprise anyone. The trends we have been seeing in the last few...
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Econet taking in 81.2% of total data revenues and extracting more from each...
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority released the sector report for Q2 2022. No one living in Zimbabwe will be surprised that even the large companies in this sector are dealing with...
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Telecel is insolvent and facing closure, and needs corporate rescue, High...
Telecel has been in freefall for years and its deterioration has only been accelerating. We have been gleening this decline in the quarterly reports released by the Postal and Telecommunications...
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Brace for 61% more expensive internet. Again
In a letter sent to Telco subscribers, a data price increase of up to 61% was approved by POTRAZ for November 2022 for all Telecommunication operators. This price increase is affecting ZW$ pricing...
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Experiencing call drops and dodgy 4G? Don’t blame your service provider. It’s...
Many times someone you know is complaining about their phone just not being reliable. Calls just spontaneously drop and network connectivity just falls from 4G to 3G or even 2G without any warning. I...
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All USSD Codes for Econet, NetOne, Telecel, Banks, and more!
You are looking for a USSD code for something and you can’t quite remember what it is? You are confused about which one is for checking your balance and which one is for buying a bundle. Well here is...
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Dolphin Telecom plus 2 other MVNOs. We wanted competition and it’s here. Almost
In an address by the POTRAZ Director General Dr. Gift Machengete, it was revealed that 3 companies have been granted Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) licenses to operate in Zimbabwe with Dolphin...
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60 minutes and 500MB FREE when you buy US$5 airtime on Telecel.
It’s that time again to hunt for that Telecel line. They have announced the Free for Five promotion, rewarding their customers with free on-net minutes and data when they spend US$5, US$3, and US$2 in...
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USD LTE data bundles compared. Econet, Telecel, NetOne, Utande, TelOne and...
Let’s talk about USD bundles. They came hot on the scene and the promise is you get more value when you pay in USD. But how much value is it really and who has the best value hands down? Time for some...
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Potraz Q3 report. Econet mopping up NetOne and Telecel subscribers & 104%...
Potraz Q3 report is out and not a lot really happened. A total of nine 2G base stations were decommissioned and 139 3G base stations were added. 4G base station count increased by 120 whilst the...
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Should we give Econet, NetOne and Telecel a pass for shoddy service? Maybe
Customers are wont to complain even when their complaints are not justified. Businesses are aware of this and customer care personnel are taught, ‘the customer is king, so just smile and take in their...
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Is it me or does the report that we’re getting 11Mbps from Econet, NetOne,...
I have to tell you, I don’t buy data bundles like I used to. I’ve lost count of the number of times I had to stay up at 3 am just so I could deplete a bundle before it expired. I am accustomed to...
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What is going on with mobile data in Zim? It’s a disaster for sure and we...
Let’s just say since 2019, mobile internet has just gone to the pits. Internet speeds plummeted and as if that was not enough, the stability of the internet connection itself took a big hit. And it’s...
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Telecel might be struggling but its few remaining subscribers are the...
A few weeks ago we ran a survey on your experiences with Mobile Internet performance in Zimbabwe. We collected a total of 939 responses and for all those that participated a very big thank you to you....
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Who faces the biggest threat from Starlink? It’s not the MNOs
So there has been a heap of comments where MNOs are tagged in Starlink articles with the notion that their days are numbered. This got me thinking that maybe there is a need to really go deep into...
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Econet, NetOne, Telecel see drop in voice traffic but increase in data usage,...
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) has released the ICT sector report for Q1 2023. There isn’t much that will shock you in there, it pretty much picked up...
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Telecel now down to 0.5% voice market share, likely making 41c/user/month
Telecel lives, miraculously, and today we get to peek into its inner workings and see how it is staving off death. It’s been years since we last saw positive news regarding the smallest mobile network...
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NetOne is the biggest loser of subscribers and Telecel loses 56.5% of its...
Mobile subscriptions as a whole dropped in Q2, a trend that has been consistent since Q3 2022. This time around NetOne lost the largest chunk of subscribers at 5.2% (193,126 subscribers). An...
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Telecel with some positives to report but overall picture grimmer than ever...
It is that time again, we get to look at the third mobile network operator – Telecel. We know the operator has been struggling for years as evidenced by these headlines from last year; Telecel now...
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