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Press Release: Telecash wins best aggregator award

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Telecel Comms and Branding Director- Obert Mandimika (left) and Distribition Manager – Titus Goredema (right) holding the Best Aggregator Award. Telecel Zimbabwe’s mobile financial service platform, Telecash, has been awarded the Best Digital Financial Services Aggregator at the Agent banking and Digital Financial Services Awards held on Thursday this week. The best aggregator award that […]

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Press Release: Telecash wins best aggregator award


Livestream: Broadband Economy Conference

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Bitcoin; a currency misunderstood. An opportunity untapped Plus a panel on joined on stage by Paul Soko- CFO of Get Bucks, David Chifamba- COO of Hammer and Tongues Online Shop and Natalie Jabangwe-Morris. To watch videos from earlier in the day, please go to this page: techzim.co.zw/bec

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Livestream: Broadband Economy Conference

Econet signs up over 2,000 merchants for its EcoCash ta! NFC payment service, eyes tollgates integration before 2017

Is there a cartel forming in the financial services sector?

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Speaking on regulating bank charges and mobile money tariffs, Mr D. Chinoda of the Competition and Tariff Commission first elaborated on the cash crisis in Zimbabwe giving possible reasons for it. He acknowledged the huge appetite for imports and underfunded nostros being some of the major reasons. With the cash crisis undeniable people have had […]

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Is there a cartel forming in the financial services sector?

Ecocash controls over 90% of mobile money transactions

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Ecocash merchant payment, computer shop

It is accurate to say that Ecocash has a monopoly on the mobile money market with more than 90% of all mobile money transactions happening on the Econet platform. These statistics were shared by Mr Chinoda of the Competition and Tariff Commission speaking at the Mobile Money and Digital Payment Conference. The Minister of ICT, […]

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Ecocash controls over 90% of mobile money transactions

Government aware of but not sure how to combat 3 tier pricing

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Minister Supa Mandiwanzira speaking at the Mobile Money and Digital Payments event acknowledged that the government is aware of the 3 tier pricing model prevalent in the market. He did not however elaborate on what the government is doing to combat the issue. What is the 3 tier pricing model? This is where you are […]

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Government aware of but not sure how to combat 3 tier pricing

EcoCash Diaspora partner WorldRemit partners with Huawei

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You know WorldRemit as the remittance company which partnered with Ecocash to enable the sending of money straight into Ecocash wallets from anywhere in the world. WorldRemit is available in over 50 countries and 140+ destinations and thus brought the diaspora to EcoCash Diaspora. WorldRemit is an ambitious remittance company on the rise. It is […]

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EcoCash Diaspora partner WorldRemit partners with Huawei

NetOne launches OneCover, a funeral support service

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The new service was announced at an event held today at Meikles Hotel. OneCover is a micro mobile insurance that offers funeral insurance to subscribers. The service is in collaboration with First Mutual Life Assurance, who are the underwriters. This means there is no medical underwriting required for registration. OneCover will be voluntary and users […]

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NetOne launches OneCover, a funeral support service


NetOne’s OneWallet to be rebranded to OneMoney

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Techzim can exclusively reveal that NetOne is working on rebranding its mobile service from OneWallet to OneMoney. The rebranding will be part of a relaunch of the product after the company migrated it to a new Huawei powered platform. The plan to relaunch OneWallet was revealed in January this year. According to sources Techzim spoke […]

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NetOne’s OneWallet to be rebranded to OneMoney

We have funeral cover, what about healthcare funded by mobile money accounts?

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Econet has had EcoSure for a while now and NetOne recently launched OneCover, both providing affordable funeral cover to the masses. We applaud these initiatives but even more important is healthcare for the living. Traditional medical insurance is expensive and inconvenient for the average person. The number of hoops you have to jump through staggers […]

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We have funeral cover, what about healthcare funded by mobile money accounts?

Huge remittances milestone for Africa as TerraPay gets SA license

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A mobile payments and remittances startup called TerraPay may have achieved what could turn out to be a huge industry milestone in the remittances space in Africa. The startup announced today that it has secured a license from the Reserve Bank of South Africa to conduct low-value international money transfers in the country. It’s a big […]

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Huge remittances milestone for Africa as TerraPay gets SA license

Calculating EcoCash charges has just been made easy

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Calculating EcoCash charges

Are you one of those who can’t make sense of those posters or fliers that show EcoCash transaction charges? Not really because you incapable of calculating (obviously), but it just looks like a tedious process and as a result you never have time for it? Washington Mkombodzi, a self taught programmer from Harare just figured […]

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Calculating EcoCash charges has just been made easy

How to buy Telecel or NetOne airtime using EcoCash

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telecel netone ecocash

They say necessity is the mama of all inventions, so when the going gets tough instead of just whining some people find solutions. Cash is a problem, no doubt. We’ve tried to go with plastic money but things like airtime are still not so easy to swipe for particularly if you don’t intend on buying […]

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How to buy Telecel or NetOne airtime using EcoCash

Here is how you can buy ANY airtime using your EcoCash

EcoCash remodeled website now has increased utilities

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Nathalie Jabangwe C.E.O of EcoCash

No doubt that EcoCash has really grown and they have the stats to prove it. Techzim in June, wrote about the milestone growth of the EcoCash ecosystem, i.e. the merchants, agents and ultimately all subscribers. As such, EcoCash has decided to have its own website, not an extension of Econet’s, but a separate one altogether […]

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EcoCash remodeled website now has increased utilities


No more buying 50c airtime on EcoCash, $1 is the new minimum

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Over the weekend, EcoCash announced that the minimum airtime recharge one could do via EcoCash would be a $1. The development was reported to be taking effect on the very same day the announcement was made, no warnings whatsoever. What interests me about this announcement is the opening statement on the flyer, it goes like […]

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No more buying 50c airtime on EcoCash, $1 is the new minimum

So what if EcoCash only allows me to buy airtime for a dollar and above???

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People near an EcoCash agent

During the weekend, EcoCash announced that the minimum airtime amount one could purchase using the platform had gone up to a dollar. This, (obviously) did not sit well with Econet users, with some even threatening to leave Econet for other network operators, NetOne to be precise. Nonetheless, for the die-hard Econet users, there might just […]

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So what if EcoCash only allows me to buy airtime for a dollar and above???

Here are some Telecash services you probably didn’t know of…

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telecash and CABS banner

Just went through the Telecel website, and I was surprised that Telecash actually offers some really essential services that EcoCash still doesn’t offer. Why the surprise? Well because to date, Telecash and OneMoney still share the remaining 10% or less of all mobile money transactions while EcoCash scoops the rest. Amongst the many reasons one […]

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Here are some Telecash services you probably didn’t know of…

NetOne’s OneMoney now has a debit card…finally!

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Last week Techzim wrote about just a few utilities that Telecash has that we think people might have just overlooked seeing that more attention has naturally been given to EcoCash. In that article I promised a follow up article on the third and final mobile money platform we have in Zimbabwe (so far), OneMoney – […]

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NetOne’s OneMoney now has a debit card…finally!

Beware of fake ‘confirmation SMSes’ said to be from EcoCash

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women selling fruits

With technology advancements and as pretty much everything digitises, the threat of being ‘hacked’ constantly faces us. Not that we should fear this change since to be fair whether we remain archaic or not, we will indeed always be faced with some big threat in one way or the other. The best we can do […]

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Beware of fake ‘confirmation SMSes’ said to be from EcoCash

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