July 20, 2019
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Econet Apologises, Says Normal Service Has Resumed. We Haven’t Experienced Normal Service Yet Though
Following the massive blackout of services across their network today, Econet has sent out an apology to some of their subscribers. The message sent out by Econet says: We apologise for intermittent services experienced on the network. Normal service has been restored. Any inconvenience caused is sincerely regretted. Not yet…
Zimbabwe’s dominant mobile network operator, Econet had a complete blackout today. Subscribers could not make or receive calls, send or receive SMS, access internet services and most importantly, could not access EcoCash, the mobile money service. Lack of access to EcoCash is most significant because it is the de facto…
Econet has acknowledged the network challenges being faced by consumers since the early hours of today. In a statement issued by the organisation, it seems there is a fault with the generators supporting the network during power outages: Our engineers are busy working to resolve a network fault that started…
As you may know by now, Econet network (and EcoCash by association) seems to have blacked out in most of the country. Those who rely on more than one network took to Twitter to vent their frustrations with the largest mobile network provider. Econet network down in Bulawayo since about…
The Econet Network is facing a catastrophic system failure that has seen a majority of it’s services completely unavailable. So far confirmed services that are down are as follows. Data/Internet services USSD services Steward Bank App EcoCash Data App Yomix It is still unclear what has caused this system failure…
Even with the US-China trade tensions easing somewhat over the past weeks, Huawei continues to work on its in-house operating system, HongMeng OS, which is also expected to be marketed as Ark OS in some markets. Lately, media reports over the past few weeks have consistently claimed that that the…
A young Zimbabwean teen, Melissa Chigubu has been named as one of the top 50 engineering students in the UK. Melissa who has has been living in the UK since 2012 is currently doing her apprenticeship at Advanced Manufacturing Training Centre’s(AMTC). Speaking about Melissa’s achievement,AMTC’s managing director, Paul Rowlett said:…
The following rates are the average interbank exchange rates from several commercial banks for today. N.B: The midrate is based on the median of the rates received on the day. Credit: The rates were gathered by Zfn at a particular time of the day so when you go to your…