MMS comes to Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean mobile network provider Econet has started a free trial period that will allow users on its network to send Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), a first for Zimbabwean mobile phone users. Multimedia Messaging More...
Econet to launch Eco Cash mobile money
Mobile operator Econet Wireless says it plans to launch its mobile money platform Eco-Cash at the end of September 2011. Strive Masiyiwa, Econet Founder (image source: file photo) The system will allow its over More...
African operators kick off LTE trials
Magnus Mchunguzi, MD Ericsson SA Ericsson is currently conducting Long Term Evolution (LTE) trials with a number of African mobile operators including Econet, Movicel and Unitel. This is according Magnus Mchunguzi, More...
Econet posts R1 billion profit
Econet Wireless, a Zimbabwean cellular mobile network, has recorded a 25 percent growth in after-tax profit of US$141 million (about R987 million) for the year ended February 28. The privately owned Econet Wireless More...
Telecel reduces cost of calls to other networks
Telecel Zimbabwe has standardised it’s rates for calls to all local mobile phone networks. It will now cost Telecel subscribers the same to call a Net One or Econet number as it does to call another Telecel More...
ECONET subscribers hit 5 million
ECONET Wireless, Zimbabwe’s leading telecoms firm has signed up over five million subscribers in the country, an official announced on Tuesday. Announcing the latest development, Econet Wireless Chief Executive More...
Safaricom adds Ecobank to M-pesa service
SAFARICOM has added Ecobank into the growing number of financial institutions that are linked to M-Pesa services, giving opportunity to its clients to access electronic float and make cash withdrawals. This is after More...
New product success delights Econet
Douglas Mboweni, Econet CEOZIMBABWE’S leading mobile cellular network, Econet Wireless, is excited by a better-than-expected response to its Econet Broadband and Ecolife products, describing them as runaway More...
Zim’s Econet network launches nationwide broadband service
ZIMBABWE’S leading mobile network, Econet Wireless, has launched the country’s first nationwide broadband service. Econet Wireless Chief Executive Officer, Douglas Mboweni, announced on Thursday that the launch More...