A WHILSTLEBLOWER has helped police bust a syndicate of sophisticated criminals behind an airtime fraud scam which could have prejudiced the mobile phone network operator, NetOne, of well over $550 million in what could easily rank as one of the biggest cyber heists in the country. The arrest of five fraud suspects last week exposed...
State-owned MNO NetOne experienced disruption to its network service following a major system upgrade last week. After customers battled to call, send SMS or access the internet, NetONe issued a statement: “NetOne wishes to advise that there will be a major system upgrade from 11 Pm, June 30, 2022, to 9 AM on July 1,...
Equipment has started arriving in the country for the third phase of NetOne’s US$71 million mobile broadband expansion that will see construction of over 260 new base stations, with President Mnangagwa expected to commission the roll out of the new expansion. Deputy Minister of Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services Dingumuzi Phuti said this...
State-run mobile telecommunications firm, NetOne says last year’s strategic expansion into outback markets resulted in 500 000 additional subscribers of the company’s mobile money platform OneMoney. NetOne is the only mobile network operator to have increased market share during the year ended 31 December 2020, according to the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe...
Net-One followed a wrong legal path in firing its former chief executive officer Lazarus Muchenje when it terminated his employment contract on three months’ notice, the High Court ruled when declaring the letter of his dismissal last year invalid. However, Muchenje remained fired after President Mnangagwa endorsed his sacking in December last year to bring...
Chinese vendor Huawei is to work with Zimbabwe’s state-owned cellco NetOne on the next phase of its ICT service development, with a focus on mobile broadband. A report from Daily News says the project is a ‘strategic cooperation between China and Zimbabwe’, with Huawei responsible for project delivery. Work during Phase II covered remote mountainous areas, while...
FORMER NetOne chief executive officer, Lazarus Muchenje, who was recently fired on three months’ notice has lost his case challenging termination of his contract after the High Court ruled that it had no jurisdiction to deal with purely labour matters. Muchenje has been fired three times since last year, but all termination letters were withdrawn...
Former CEO of Zimbabwean operator NetOne Lazarus Muchenje has filed an application at the High Court challenging the termination of his contract, The Herald reported. Muchenje had been dismissed on 09 July 2020 but made an urgent chamber application at the High Court challenging his dismissal, and an interim order was granted in his favour, suspending...
The third phase of Zimbabwe telecommunication firm NetOne’s national expansion project is scheduled to begin in earnest in Q1 2021 at an estimated cost of US$71-million. This as the government intensifies its focus on broadband infrastructure deployment and access to digital services. ICT Minister Jenfan Muswere confirmed that the project was expected to upgrade the...
Telecoms giant NetOne has started reconnecting to its mobile telephone network, communities in some parts of Manicaland province, whose lives were ravaged by tropical storm, Cyclone Idai last year in March. Cyclone Idai was described by United Nations as one of the deadliest storms in the southern hemisphere and it left a trail of destruction...
