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An
overview of Zimbabwe's telecommunications
Technology
Zimbabwe
March 05, 2010
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We got this
presentation here from a function we attended last week. The presentation
was made by the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority
of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) and generally covers the current state of telecoms
industry in Zimbabwe. Coming from them, we're sure it's
pretty accurate.
A summary of
the highlights of the presentation:
Zimbabwe's Telecoms Infrastructure
- 5 International
gateways
- 5 radio terrestrial
2 fibre-optic links to regional countries
Access Technologies
- GSM, WiMax,
CDMA, Fibre, ADSL
Mobile
Market Structure
- There are
3 mobile operators; Econet, Net*One and Telecel
- Subscribers:
Econet 3,200,000, Telecel 600,000, Net*One 500000
- Econet offers
GPRS, EDGE , and 3G
- Other mobile
operators are in the process of rolling out 2.5G and 3G services
Market
Structure Internet Access
- POTRAZ is
issues either class A or Class B
- Only Class
A allows VoIP services
- Class B
has combined public data and internet
- There are
10 internet Class A and 1 Class B operator
- Internet
users are estimated to be 1.4 million
- POTRAZ doesn't
regulate ISPs.
Tariffs
- All telecommunications
tariffs have to be cost based
- All tariffs
should be approved by the regulator before they are implemented
- Fixed calls
are 15c per 3 minutes
- Mobile calls
are 24c/m
- SMS are
9 cent
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