Itel Home. From smartphones to blenders
You may know Itel as a smartphone brand with a reputation for selling really affordable smartphones with proper entry-level specs and one huge battery. And you would be right. But…
Buddie Beatz has had an unimpressive 2 million downloads in 10 years, do you use the service?
I love music. It’s the one art form I consume the most, by a mile. I could not have picked a better time to be alive as a music lover.…
You can pay using OneMoney from any POS now, is this a game changer?
You have heard the news, you can now pay straight from your OneMoney mobile money wallet via Point of Sale. This means wherever you find a POS machine you don’t…
Econet’s 2022 Annual report. Beyond 5G and profits
The 2022 Econet Wireless Zimbabwe Annual Report is out. All 125 pages of it and they have been busy. There are some areas they touched on that caught my attention…
FIFA’s offside tech involves cameras that track 29 data points on each player and a ball with a sensor
You know those jokes about nerds/geeks vs jocks. Movies made it seem like there is no place in the sports world for geeky talk. That’s not quite the case. Today…
The UN coaching govts on how to stifle cryptocurrencies makes me mad
You might not understand what the fuss about cryptocurrencies is all about. Or maybe you understand but find it all rather ridiculous. Either way, you have to concede they are…
TelOne’s new data prices effective 1 September 2022
TelOne has recently announced their new data prices for home internet. This comes about a month after their last tariff increase. The new tariffs are to take effect on the…
Zimbabwe’s first ever musical animated series coming to a YouTube near you
If there is anything we share, it is our pride in being Zimbabwean. Listen, I know, sometimes we are ashamed of our country. But that’s like being ashamed when a…
Investment in infrastructure up while voice, data, SMS traffic declines & more from the POTRAZ Q1 2022 report
The Postal and Telecommunications regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ), recently released the sector performance report for Q1 2022. Here are the highlights from the report: • Active fixed telephone lines…
Telecel revenues down 95% from 2015 levels, from US$14m to US$0.7m per month in 2022
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) released the sector performance report for Q1 2022. There’s not a lot that will shock you in the report, for the…