Category: Broadband

  • Interesting tech news this week, Friday 28 April

  • Everything you need to know before you bring your Starlink kit to Zimbabwe

  • [Update] Starlink is working in Zimbabwe for as low as US$53 per month…but there is a catch

  • Liquid Home (Zol) facing system challenge, you may fail to top up or make payments

  • Unfortunately, you can’t escape Zim’s high data prices by roaming on South African lines

  • [Update] Econet tariffs increasing tomorrow, from US$6.24 per GB to possibly $9.36 for a monthly bundle

  • [Exclusive] Econet has whitelisted all its customers for 5G!

  • The mysterious case of Econet’s 5G availability

  • TelOne has tweaked its USD packages—more variety.

  • “There was no comic book community in Zimbabwe, so we made Comexposed” – Eugene Mapondera

  • Xiaomi Soundbar is also another great soundbar. Better sound, bigger size, and more connectivity options

  • Liquid Home (Zol) service outage in some areas in Harare

  • Zimbabwe has 3rd most expensive fixed internet in the world says UK report, but is it?

  • iSIMs are here to replace the eSIM you are yet to get

  • Are Econet and NetOne really saying US$7.50 or US$6.54 for 1GB is not economically sustainable?

  • Econet partners Ericsson to upgrade network, to improve and introduce new services like VoLTE

  • China dropping big four accounting firms, should Zimbabwe do the same?

  • We asked POTRAZ about Starlink. Here is everything we know about it coming to Zimbabwe.

  • Starlink introduces Global Roaming which means you can technically use it in Zimbabwe now

  • This is what Zimbabweans do on the internet when they are not on WhatsApp

  • Liquid (Zol) facing another service degradation nationwide, its slow speeds until further notice

  • Is it me or does the report that we’re getting 11Mbps from Econet, NetOne, and Telecel sound wrong?

  • Should we give Econet, NetOne and Telecel a pass for shoddy service? Maybe

  • Liquid was facing an internet outage earlier this morning. Why was it just slow and not completely off?

  • Econet bundle prices going up on 8 Feb, you will have to deal with it

  • Liquid Intelligent Technologies selects Nokia for a 12Tbps fiber backbone link spanning 7 African countries

  • Dandemutande partners with BCS for an US$8 million 891km fiber network expansion

  • 5G is terrible right now. But it has a very useful and exciting future

  • Verizon closes the door on 3G in the USA, the last MNO to do so. Just how far behind is Africa?

  • Dark Fiber Africa is using Zimbabwe’s major rail network to lay 2000km of fiber across the country