Cassava Technologies

This new entity, whose headquarters are in London, will bring together Econet’s digital services and infrastructure businesses. This includes the brands we’ve come to know such as Liquid Intelligent Technologies, Africa Data Centres and Distributed Power Technologies, Liquid Cloud, Sasai Fintech and Vaya Technologies.

Cassava’s Aim

Internet in Africa is not as easily accessible as in other developed nations. In addition to it not being available in some remote areas, the cost of data is high in Africa. This makes it difficult for the continent to make the same developmental strides that other nations outside the continent have been able to. Things as basic as education have been difficult to access in Zimbabwe during covid 19 induced lockdown periods for many students. This is as a result of the high costs of data for online lessons. However, many children who attend private schools didn’t miss out very much on their education as they could afford the high costs. Unfortunately, that’s just a small percentage of the whole country.

Cassava Technologies sees a vision of a better Africa than the one described by the challenges above.

Strive Masiyiwa has previously shared his vision for Africa with regards to internet access and associated developments. He believes in making internet services as affordable as Cassava for all in order to create equal opportunities.

The Group already operates various businesses in Africa under the names, Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, Econet LEO (Burundi), Econet Telecom Lesotho, Econet’s investment in Mascom Wireless Botswana, and Econet’s mobile money business, EcoCash Holdings Zimbabwe.

The group proves to be working towards fulfilling their vision since a deal is said to have already been secured to bring cheap internet to Central African countries.

Statement From Cassava Technologies’ CEO

We already shared the founder and Chairman of this new entity, Strive Masiyiwa’s vision for Africa, however, the CEO of the entity, Hardy Pemhiwa had sentiments of his own to share. The showed how Cassava Technologies will work towards Africa’s advancement.

He said:

“We are delighted to announce the launch of Cassava Technologies. Our unmatched fiber broadband, data centres and renewable energy infrastructure, paired with fintech, cloud, cybersecurity, and on-demand digital platforms, will accelerate Africa’s digital transformation.”

Zimbabweans are often complaining about the high prices of data especially by Econet. Myself as a Zimbabwean, am already impatiently waiting for our turn to receive cheap, fast and easily accessible internet access in the country.

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The data rollover facility allowed TelOne customers to carry over their unused data to the next, prior to this introduction of this facility, unused data would expire after 30 days.

TelOne has been facing viability challenges, the company has resorted to selling handsets, and even their video on demand (VOD) platform DEOD recently reduced subscriptions prices when everyone else is hiking tariffs, a sign that things are not looking good at the parastatal.

The reason cited for the suspension is that the facility is that the rollover facility was causing instability on their platform, which was impacting other services.

In our view the decision has more to do with low revenues, when the facility was introduced it obviously meant that customers would stay longer without buying new bundles, by reverting to the old system they are able to make money even in instances where services were not rendered.

It looks like regulators in Zimbabwe are giving telecoms companies’ free reign without checks and balances, in the end it is the consumer that suffers.

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Perhaps you’ve also noticed that the access to that free internet has been very erratic of the past few weeks. People hadn’t been able to connect as they used to. Were these tell-tell signs of an abrupt and fast approaching end to this free service? Likely.

If you haven’t been to the ZOL page lately, this is what you must expect to see:

Notice the change? Instead of the standard 30-minutes free, enter your email address, you’re now supposed to enter a voucher code.

Could this move have been prompted by the  “prevailing business climate” described by NetOne when they were justifying their extreme hike in data tariffs?

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It seems TelOne has finally heeded the call, the days of your internet package expiring after 30 days are finally behind us, but this is nothing new though the internet service provider ZOL already offers rolling data services to their customers.

The country’s only fixed line service provider, announced the news on their Facebook page much to the cheers of the masses.

Perhaps the bigger fish in the room is the cost of internet, it has become the norm for most internet service providers, to review prices whenever the United States dollar coughs.

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TelOne’s tariff increase follows other Internet providers such as Econet who have also increased prices due to the volatility of the Zimbabwean economy.

Those like myself who used to purchase the Home Premier Night Internet package for RTGS$135 will now need to part with RTGS$211 for the same offering.

Below is the full price list.

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Night browsing packages will allow TelOne subscribers to browse the internet from 11pm to 5am with the data that is allocated for that period, depending on the packages they opt for.

There are 3 Night Browsing Packages, the Basic Plus Night which offers users 8GB of data during the day and 8 GB data for night browsing at $19, then the Home Plus Night package with 30GB for day and 30GB for night use at $32, then finally the Premier Plus Night which offers 60GB day use and 60GB night use for $54.

TelOne offers some of the most affordable internet packages in Zimbabwe.

UPDATE: For TelOne’s 2021 LATEST INTERNET DATA TARIFFS / PRICE LIST CLICK HERE

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