Who is Econet?
Econet, officially known as Econet Global Ltd, is a diversified telecommunications group with operations and investments in Africa, Europe, South America and the East Asia Pacific Rim, offering products and services in the core areas of mobile and fixed telephone services, broadband, satellite, optical fiber networks and mobile payment.
The group’s subsidiaries include Econet Mobile Networks Group, Liquid Telecom, Cassava SmarTech, Distributed Power Africa, Vaya Africa and Technites Africa.
Over the past 20 years, Econet has been the market leader in its industry, with over 12.4 million subscribers.
Ecocash, Econet’s mobile money service, now has 200 million USD transactions per day.