TelOne Zimbabwe signed an agreement with Eutelsat to bring high-quality satellite broadband, Konnect Africa. Eutelsat Konnect, is a new-generation High Throughput Satellite (HTS) that provides almost a complete coverage of Europe and sub-Saharan Africa with 75-gigabit per second (Gbps) of Ka-band across a network of 65 spot beams. Chipo Mtasa, Managing Director of TelOne, commented: [...]
Discover Digital introduced 12 new channels via its DEOD platform to expand its 15 existing channels on the Zimbabwean market. The free channels include Al Jazeera, Africa News, TRT World, Russia Today, France 24, Deutche Welle, GOD TV, HopeChannel, SBN, Inspiration TV, KayaTV and RT documentaries. These are in addition to the local Zimbabwean Zollywood [...]
According to Dataxis’ latest research, 102 million households in the sub-Saharan region have access to television among the 225 million households constituting the region for the year 2018. Even though, the penetration is progressing, reaching 42% in 2018 compared to 40% in 2017, television has not yet fully penetrated into sub-Saharan African homes. Households receiving [...]
Zimbabwe government-owned telecoms company, TelOne, and its mobile subsidiary NetOne, will be partially privatised by September 2019 according to the country’s finance minister, Mthuli Ncube. The government is looking to fast-track the partial privatisation process that would result in the state owning at least 40% equity in TelOne and NetOne, which are offered as a [...]
Zimbabwe’s finance minister, Mthuli Mcube, announced on October 5, 2018 that the government will privatize TelOne and NetOne, within the next six months. During a press conference, the government representative explained that this operation is part of the Transitional Stabilization Program (TSP). The finance minister said it is a set of institutional reforms taken by [...]
State owned telecommunications company, TelOne, has inked a partnership with Discover Digital, to provide a streaming service called Digital Entertainment on Demand (DEOD). The service has been launched on October 3. The service has been rolled out for public viewing in Borrowdale, Ster-Kinekor Movie House at Sam Levy’s Village. The DEOD service is offered with TelOne broadband [...]
The Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) granted an operating license to TelOne, a telecommunications operator, to create a video-on-demand (VoD) service. The agreement was announced by the regulator on the 11th of May. With 105,000 Internet subscribers (in fiber and ADSL), TelOne hopes that its service will quickly adjust into the consumption habits of audiovisual [...]