the Digital community of Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe's fibre-optic implementation intensifies

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:53:00 +0200

HARARE: Zimbabwe has embarked on a gigantic fibre-optic project which is aimed at improving internet and mobile service capacities, an official confirmed.
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Zimbabwe increases efforts to revive ICT sector

Mon, 18 May 2009 11:08:00 +0200

According to a Zimbabwean government minister, efforts are underway to bring information and communication technologies (ICT) to the rural areas of the country.
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Zimbabwe government to deliver internet access to rural communities

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:22:00 +0200

The Zimbabwean government has announced a plan to open internet cafes in rural areas of the country, in an effort to bring the advantages of technology to remote and impoverished communities.
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Zim: Internet survives fall in media demand

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:18:00 +0200

The internet survived a slump in patronage or visibility that affected all the other media in Zimbabwe from Q4 2007 to Q4 2008, the Zimbabwe All Media Products and Services (ZAMPS) survey has revealed.
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Zimbabwe uses internet to boost tourism

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:26:00 +0200

A partnership between two government ministries in Zimbabwe will attempt to market the Southern African nation as an attractive tourist destination, using the internet as medium.
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High hopes for Zimbabwe's ICT sector revival

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:26:00 +0200

High hopes exists that the formation of a government of national unity in Zimbabwe will revive the troubled information and communications technology sector in Zimbabwe.
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Illegal internet and data operators surge in Zim

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:35:00 +0200

Zimbabwe's internet service providers have denounced "illegal" internet and data operators, calling on members of the public to report them to the police for prosecution.
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VoIP now legal in Zimbabwe?

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:44:00 +0200

Has the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) finally seen the light? If developments at Econet Wireless are anything to go by, VoIP is now legal in Zimbabwe. Or is it?
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Zim caught on the web

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:46:00 +0200

The Zimbabwe Internet Report (aka Zi.Report - pronounced Zy as in why) is an initiative from recently formed online media group, Aripano Infinity, that aims to keep track of events and innovations that have a Zimbabwean slant on the internet.
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Jammed! Zimbabwe's immobile mobile systems

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:01:00 +0200

Freedom is in the air, and change is already being commemorated by Zimbabwe's urbanites on the phones. All through Harare's forbidding streets, littered with police, people walk with cellphones, discussing delayed results from the March 29 elections. Moreover, the rumour-mill is busy, particularly with stories over the presidential election.
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