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Zamtel Launches PremierInvest On Its Mobile Money Menu

May 31, 2023

Zamtel has in partnership with fintech PremierCredit launched the PremierInvest product on its mobile money menu. PremierInvest is a peer-to-peer lending product by PremierCredit…

AstroTech’s AstroMobile and AstroCred: Revolutionizing Technology and Finance in Africa

May 24, 2023

AstroTech is a dynamic and innovative business that is transforming the financial services and technology industry in Africa. The company’s cutting-edge offerings, such as…

Wasoko Expands to Zambia

May 16, 2023

Wasoko, the African e-commerce company leveraging innovative technology to transform the informal retail supply chain, has announced its expansion into Zambia – the company’s…

Tingg by Cellulant Transforms Billing and Collections for Utility Companies in Zambia

May 10, 2023

Tingg, Cellulant’s digital payments platform, is challenging Zambia’s traditional bill payment method. With Tingg, individuals and businesses can quickly and easily pay their water…

Wi-flix Expands to Zambia with MTN Partnership

May 9, 2023

Wi-flix, the fastest-growing streaming platform in Africa, has expanded its presence to Zambia following the launch of its unbeatable packages with mobile telecommunications giant…

How AI, Machine Learning And Cloud Computing Could Impact Zambia’s Future Economic Growth

March 31, 2023

AI has been the most recent buzzing word! The growth of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and cloud computing could impact Zambia’s job…

Principles for Digital Development – An Introduction

September 6, 2017

Technology is a powerful tool and, in my line of work, can easily become the be all and end all. Just look at the…

MTN and Barclays launch Bank to Wallet service

June 1, 2017

The latest mobile banking service is from MTN Zambia and Barclays Zambia who have launched a Bank to Wallet (B2W) service that allows clients to…

Internet outage reported in parts of Zambia

August 18, 2016

We are getting reports through our various platforms that mobile network providers data networks have been down in certain parts of Zambia since late…

.com domains are nasty; buy local, go .zm!

February 10, 2016

Looking around the web-sphere of Zambia the lack of locally registered domains is frightening. By locally registered I mean have their domain registered in Zambia,…

Should IT certification be an alternative to traditional education?

January 25, 2016

The last 10 years have been phenomenal for the world of Information Technology. The majority of the world no longer sees having a laptop,…

Hai has peering agreement with Netflix for Zambia

January 18, 2016

Hai have a peering agreement with Netflix, meaning that all content streamed on Hai broadband “comes directly from Netflix all the way to your…

Zamtel’s Real Mahala reloaded

January 11, 2016

The bundled tarrif package by Zamtel called Real Mahala has been reloaded, as Zamtel puts it, with a K3 promotional pack dubbed “Feel the…

Netflix Everywhere

January 7, 2016

Netflix is Everywhere, Netflix is in Zambia. Netflix has allowed its streaming service to be viewed across the world with a few exceptions, the…

The tech trends to look forward to in 2016

January 4, 2016

Last year we predicted some new trends in tech in Zambia in 2015 and also reviewed them later in the year to see how…

How the #MTN1HourChat with MTN Zambia CEO Charles Molapisi had no spaka

December 10, 2015

On Tuesday 8th December 2015 MTN Zambia’s CEO Charles Molapisi held an hour-long online chat with MTN subscribers and others on the company’s local…

GSMA report shows mobile sector brought in over $100bn value to Sub-Saharan Africa

November 3, 2015

According to a study by the GSMA last month, the mobile sector brought in over $100 billion in value to the Sub-Saharan region…

MTN launches ‘Spaka 1 SIM’ promo to reduce customers’ multiple SIM use

November 2, 2015

In an effort to reduce the need for 2 SIM cards usage by subscribers to make calls and texts to the respective mobile service…

ZICTA has a new website, but it has a few problems…

October 28, 2015

The Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA) has a new website, and we kind of like it. It’s so much better than what it…

More bye than ‘Hai’ as Liquid Telecom internet service slows down

October 26, 2015

Hai Telecommunications, a retail outlet of internet service provider Liquid Telecom, has been depressing customers of late with the slow speeds being experienced on…