James Makamba's company, Telecel Zimbabwe, risks losing its operating licence if it fails to comply with the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act, Zimbabwe's government has warned.
 
As the mobile operator's saga unfolds, government through the Ministry of Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment has written to the Ministry of Transport, Communication and Infrastructural Development for consideration on the resistance by...

Zimbabwe's largest mobile phone company, Econet Wireless, has unveiled an innovative functionality on its mobile money service Eco-cash which allows a cell phone to also operate as a virtual debit card.

The functionality is a first in Africa where mobile banking services are expanding as more people use the service to avoid high bank charges. In addition, mobile banking is becoming an attractive option owing to the lack of physical banking...

Would you pay US$100 to message Mark Zuckerberg? Facebook is trialing a system which charges users to send messages directly to VIPs' inboxes.

The social network giant is testing a system which charges users to send messages to people that they aren't already connected to, with a premium to be paid for contacting very popular people.

The company confirmed Friday that trials have already begun for the new service, but that...

Rumours are growing that Facebook may be set to unveil a mobile phone to take on the iPhone.

The firm has sent out invites to US journalists for a special event at their usually secretive Silicon Valley HQ. The invites promise to allow attendees to 'see what we're building' - with online rumours pointing to a phone.

The firm has been rumoured several times to be developing its own phone. Its apps for existing phones have...

Veteran American telecoms executive Dr James Patrick Myers has been appointed the new Non-Executive Chairman of Econet Wireless Zimbabwe to replace Tawanda Nyambirai, who stepped down this week.

Dr Myers is a retired former Vice President for Africa of South Western Bell, now part of AT&T, the world's largest telecoms company by value. He also served as the President of Southwestern Bell International Development Africa (Pty) Ltd from 1985...

People from the tiniest African villages to some of its largest cities have converged on Lagos, Nigeria, this week to talk about making stuff.

The Maker movement - which encompasses traditional handicrafts through to cutting-edge robotics, is growing exponentially around the world with spin-off Maker Faires popping up all over the globe.

Some teenage schoolgirls have created a powerful urine-powered generator. The generator...

HARARE - Ex-Zanu PF legislator Great Makaya has won a right to run a telecommunications venture, which means Zimbabwe can have a sixth data and mobile operator.

This comes as the 65 year-old businessman had approached the High Court to restore his Information Media Investments (Private) Limited (IMI) licence annulled by the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) 10 years ago.

In a ruling...

NetOne is not taking the blow they suffered from Econet yesterday lightly. In a press notice released today, the state owned mobile operator has threatened to have Econet Wireless Zimbabwe's board and management arrested over the termination of interconnection services between the two mobile operators that Econet carried out yesterday.

After the termination, NetOne made an application to the Zimbabwe High Court to compel Econet to restore the...

Enhanced Communication Networks (Econet) advised that it will terminate all interconnect services with NetOne with effect from today, Thursday 23 August 2012. As a result no calls will be possible originating from NetOne and terminating directly onto Econet as well as calls originating on Econet and terminating directly onto NetOne.

The decision has been taken after NetOne repudiated the interconnection agreement. Since dollarization, NetOne...

ECONET Wireless Zimbabwe has engaged government to recover US$80 million it is owed by TelOne and NetOne in interconnection fees, the company's chief executive officer, Douglas Mboweni, told shareholders at an annual general meeting on Friday.

TelOne, a fixed line telecoms firm and NetOne, a mobile phone operator, are both owned by government. Mboweni said the two telecommunication companies risk being disconnected if they did not pay up.