EXCLUSIVE – How to use MasterCard with Telecash
For those of you who are avid online buyers, here’s a hack that will allow you to use your MasterCard with Telecash. This solution has been available ever since Telecash launched in Zimbabwe and has...
View ArticleTelecel offers 35 mins (on net) for $1
Disclosure: The writer consults for Telecel Zimbabwe and the views expressed here are solely his and not of any company or of TechZim’s. In a bulk SMS sent out to its subscribers this evening, Telecel...
View ArticleMy two cents on Econet’s “free” Twitter
Just recently we reported that Zimbabwe’s leading carrier, Econet, launched a new service that allowed its subscribers one month access to the micro-blogging site Twitter for free. Now days into it,...
View ArticleTelecel launches telecash promo to reward users
Telecel ZImbabwe kicked off its Transact and Win Promo today which will reward users of the telecash service with an assortment of prizes. Lucky subscribers stand to win cash ($500 prizes for 20...
View ArticleEconet set to compete on product value, not lower tariffs
Last week Econet Wireless held its annual general meeting which gave the company’s management an opportunity to address shareholders on issues related to revenue, profitability and the outlook for the...
View ArticleBetter bundles and more joy from Econet?
Econet has decided to tweak its Buddie Bundles of Joy product by extending the validity periods for its $2, $5 and $10 bundles. The $2 bundle is now valid for 2 days, the $5 bundle will get you 3 days...
View ArticleEconet’s free Twitter extended by three months
A month ago mobile network operator Econet Wireless announced a one month only free Twitter offer for all its broadband subscribers. The great news for #Twimbos who have been enjoying the special is...
View ArticleTelecash zero-rates mobile money transfers
In a move that will definitely change the competition dynamics of local mobile money, telecash, the mobile money arm of Telecel has made it free to transfer money to a registered telecash...
View ArticleWhatsApp’s latest milestone: 600 million active users,1 billion in sight
Yesterday co-founder and CEO of IM platform WhatsApp, Jan Koum tweeted that the application now has 600 million active users. The figure affirms WhatsApp as the world’s most popular instant messaging...
View ArticleDear Telecash…… How about this for improving the cash-ins?
We have been following your recent entry into the local market and the waves that it has created. Not too sure if we got to tell you this, but well done! Imagine our excitement when we found out...
View ArticleMarketing warfare: Telecel and Econet at each other’s throats
August has been a great month for those of us that love creative fighting in marketing warfare. So Econet went first deriding Telecel for copying a SIM Promo they had started. Clever yes, in making it...
View ArticleTelecel partners Mukuru to enable remittances to telecash
In a fulfillment of promises made a few months ago Telecel has, through a partnership with Mukuru, now enabled the remittances of diasporan funds straight into the mobile wallets of its mobile money...
View ArticlePodcast: Jive Zimbabwe, telecash,TelOne Ts &Cs & Twitter Analytics
Here’s this week’s edition of the podcast. We discussed the new online music platform, Jive Zimbabwe and its impact on the fight against piracy. We also touched on Telecel’s new arrangement with...
View Article5 features that could make WhatsApp even better
Technology is extending our reach in ways that we never thought possible, boundaries be damned. In a way, we’ve grown to understand that talking to the next person no longer involves traveling through...
View ArticleNetOne applies for datacasting licence
According to a notice in the Herald, state-owned mobile network operator Netone has applied for a national datacasting licence from the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe.The datacasting licence is one...
View ArticleEconet reacts to taxes?
Its funny some of the small things that catch a mobile subscriber’s attention. We recently received a tip from an Econet subscriber who noticed that the network has adjusted its voice bundles, this...
View ArticleTelecel re-introduces voice promo in the face of airtime taxes
Telecel Zimbabwe announced the re-introduction of its Mega Juice promotion. This promo offers prepaid Telecel Go subscribers a 100% bonus for on net calls to whenever they recharge airtime worth $1 or...
View ArticleTelecel Zimbabwe loses 130,000 subscribers in three months. What lies ahead?
Second quarter financial results released by parent company, Vimpelcom, show that Telecel Zimbabwe just lost 130,000 active subscribers in the 3 months since the first quarter of the 2014. Considering...
View ArticleNetworks offer free WhatsApp to subscribers
Earlier today South Africa’s Cell C announced an offer for free WhatsApp services to all its contract subscribers and some of its prepaid subscribers. According to a report from My Broadband this...
View ArticleTelecel launches mobile insurance product Telecare
Telecel ZImbabwe has just announced the introduction of a mobile life insurance product called Telecare. The product, a result of a partnership with Zimnat Lion, is available to all registered Telecel...
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