Tag: Mobile Money
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Will Ecocash Ever work in Kombis?
The one thing that we will all probably get tired of hearing is that Ecocash came and changed things in Zimbabwe blah blah blah. It may have started out slow but after our cash crisis spiralled deeper and deeper into turmoil. I mean you can pay for basically everything now; groceries, rent, tuition fees and…
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4 Things You Are Doing Wrong On Ecocash
Zimbabwe in our uniqueness saw the rise of mobile money, something that hasn’t enjoyed much success in the rest of the world. Initially, Ecocash was just good for sending money to loved ones in the quickest and possibly most secure way. Now it has graduated to an easy way of paying bills, buying products locally…
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Ecocash: Are Banks Fighting Fair?
The Zimbabwe situation is as our situations always are; almost purely isolated to Zimbabwe. How many other case studies can we find on how to live in a country with no cash? This is really something that any other economy would have a hard time duplicating. It’s common knowledge that whenever there is a crisis…
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Bond notes here! 4 ways to use them less
Finally after lots of announcements on 28 November 2016, the bond notes finally came and a lot of people are getting worried. Most people are scared of a repeat of the 2008 era where the black market was rife and a shortage of cash and retail products made life extremely difficult. Naturally, even looking at it…
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Why GetCash Will Fail at beating Ecocash
According to Newsday, GetCash is targeting the financially excluded. That is obviously a joke. The change to GetCash meant letting go of the USSD side of doing business.GetCash lost the plot of “…targeting the Financially excluded” when the decided to go with the mobile app as the only way to use the service.
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Does OneWallet really exist?
With the rise in the importance of mobile money in the Zimbabwean economy, here is a brief look into whether NetOne’s OneWallet did enough in a highly competitive market where the competition has done everything short of bringing your money to your house.