A new startup, Afrocoin Mobile Money, is set to launch in the coming months (or weeks,no idea right now) as a new player in the remittances and mobile money transfer market.
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Afrocoin to compete with Mukuru, Western Union, EcoCash in remittances
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Econet Wireless & Mahindra Comviva win GTB award for EcoCash
Econet Wireless and Mahindra Comviva recently won a Global Telecoms Business (GTB) award for the EcoCash mobile money transfer project. Mahindra Comviva are the suppliers of the platform that EcoCash runs on.
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Telecel Zimbabwe considering mobile money re-entry?
Last year, Telecel Zimbabwe pulled a 'surprise of the year' move on all of us; A mobile operator killed its mobile money service. No one knows (well, except them and probably ZimSwitch) when exactly Skwama was killed because it was done silently, only to be disclosed when we asked about the disappeared product in September last year.
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Why Skwama reloaded is real: Former top EcoCash executive now at Telecel
We weren't sure how direct an entry especially because she referred to it as "mobile banking". New information we have received from sources in the industry says there indeed is a more direct mobile money project going on at Telecel.
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Harare city council bill payments latest addition to EcoCash uses
Econet announced yesterday via an SMS to subscribers that residence of Harare can now pay their council bills (rates and water) using EcoCash as more practical use of the mobile money service are rolled out.
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More of the Afrocoin money transfer solution: the website screenshot
Last month, we wrote about a money transfer service set to launch soon called Afrocoin. With scanty information gleaned from their Crunchbase profile and website holding page, we were not sure of the details of the product it is. We are still not sure about many things, but an image sent to our tips email this afternoon gives more insight into at least their web presence.
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The EcoCash mobile payments strategy and numbers: a case study by GSMA
Recently, the GSM Association released a case study report they did on EcoCash this year. The case study focuses on EcoCash's rapid uptake since launch in September 2011 with a look at how the company has managed to register 2.3 million Zimbabweans in under two years.
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What everyone should know about bitcoin
Unless you have been living under a rock for the past couple of years, you have probably heard about bitcoin. What makes bitcoin fascinating is that it's the first currency which is not just free, as in 'free beer' but free as in 'free speech'. In fact. In fact, ever since the first standardised coins were created in Western Turkey in the 7th Century BC, money has never been associated with all of the following 3: Open, Universal and Free. Bitcoin changed that.
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Econet working on an EcoCash internet payments API
Information we have suggests that Econet has been working on an internet payments component for EcoCash which was schedule to be released this month. The release has however, as we have been told, pushed a further and its not clear when it will be available to web developers and eCommerce companies to use.
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Pay Kombi Fares with EcoCash: Adoption
The introduction of EcoCash payments in kombis was met by large scepticism in the market. Some of us doubted its practicality and questioned how the conductor was going to verify all the text messages and identify who made the payments. Surely the conductor doesn’t know everybody’s name and number. So does he have to check everybody’s ID. The cumbersome process of making a payment through EcoCash is also another point to consider
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Econet breaks EcoCash as interconnection dispute with Telecel continues
The smooth convenience of using mobile money for transfers and payments is exceptional. The idea of being able to send money to anyone that has a mobile phone and them being able to pick it up immediately in any part of the country is something that a few years ago wasn't imaginable. Anyone with a mobile phone!
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Predicting an eCommerce boom in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe has always been a tricky landscape for online ventures. We have seen many an entrepreneur launch an exciting platform only to see it fail. Ventures such as tengesa.com easily come to mind. Don’t get me wrong here; I am not saying we do not have success stories in Zimbabwe.
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EcoCash & MasterCard, not VPayments, will ignite ecommerce in Zimbabwe
Through the MasterCard Mobile Money Partnership, you will be able to use your EcoCash wallet wherever MasterCard is accepted with the option to have a prepaid MasterCard that you can also use wherever MasterCard is accepted.
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Econet suspends EcoCash mobile money transfers to other networks
Unlike other mobile banking offerings that have emerged on the market, customers using EcoCash are not required to have a bank account, do not need to switch their SIM cards for new ones, and can move money across different mobile networks.
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How to get started making your own online store
There has been a number of discussions on the issue of ecommerce is Zimbabwe. Some have predicted its success and some were sceptical that e-commerce will experience significant adoption in Zimbabwe. Be that as it may, let’s put all the debate aside and let’s go about creating an online store. After all there is no [...]
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Econet completes EcoCash mobile money integration with NMB Bank
We just got tipped to the news that Econet Wireless - well, the Econet Services part of it - has completed the integration of its EcoCash platform with NMB Bank's banking platform.
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One agent’s experience choosing between EcoCash and Textacash
If you have worked or stayed in the Avondale area in Harare, you probably know of a popular food place at the flea market where lots of people religiously enjoy their lunch everyday. I visited the place with a friend today and we were quite intrigued to find they are now accepting Textacash mobile payments.
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Zimbabwe: Of banks, Mobile Money and EcoCash
Many like myself are probably wondering about the future of Mobile Money in Zimbabwe. On one side we have EcoCash bullishly rolling out merchant after merchant gathering enough momentum to fully implement a system perhaps even more speedily adopted than M-Pesa of Kenya. On the other hand we have the banks under the banner of [...]
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ZimSwitch: an update on the ZimSwitch Shared Services (ZSS) platform
The article below is a statement issued by ZimSwitch on the state and progress made with the ZimSwitch Shared Services payments switching platform. The statement was issued to us as part of the research that we made over the past few weeks for the article Zimbabwe: Of banks, Mobile Money and EcoCash. It has been a busy year [...]
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Startup launches Zimbabwe’s first online local domain registration service
The difficult process of registering local domains in Zimbabwe is something we have written about extensively here on Techzim. It’s something we feel passionate about for the simple reason that allowing people to easily register local domains easily means more people can try more stuff online easily. Imagine therefore our delight finding out a team [...]
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