Econet bemoans Zimbabwe's high inflationary pressures

Zimbabwe's most popular mobile money platform has continued to grow, overcoming severe macroeconomic upheavals and capitalising on opportunities to maintain its business performance.

The most recent network upgrade concentrated on streamlining traffic management and routing processes, the company noted.

Al Americani, CEO of Vodacom DR Congo, spoke to ITWeb Africa about its testing of network upgrades, its infrastructure challenges and the key role that mobile money plays in its offering to the country.

Airtel Africa's regional networks are seeing growing data and smartphone usage, with 4G devices accounting for more than 80% of all data access in the last three months alone.

Zimbabwe regulator approved telecom tariff increases with a 100% rise. Econet, TelOne, and Liquid were among the telecom firms who raised their rates last week.

The move by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe comes as the central bank attempts to make its new gold token usable as a means of transaction settlement.

50 undergraduate Zimbabwean university students studying ICT will receive virtual technology training in November.

Tupuca, an Angolan online food and grocery delivery platform, is capitalising on increased demand for its services and is looking for further funds to expand.

As part of his ambitions to form an angel investment fund, Sahara Ventures CEO discussed the startup environment with ITWeb Africa for this story.

Stitch is primarily focused on enterprise payments solutions in South Africa, but it sees chances to grow into the rest of the African continent.

Over the weekend, Innbucks advised customers that they may send money from South Africa through the Clicksendnow website.

In the quarter ended in May, the business upgraded 30% of Harare and 70% of the Bulawayo base station sites.