Embrace innovation, Mandiwanzira tells telecom firms

Information, Communication and Technology and Courier Services minister Supa Mandiwanzira has urged local mobile operators to embrace innovation and create bigger globally competitive mobile applications.

Addressing several ICT innovators yesterday in Harare, Mandiwanzira said major mobile operators had approached his office on the challenges they were facing, notably a decrease in revenue due to the emergence of communication applications such as WhatsApp, Viber and Skype.

Mandiwanzira said that this was a wake-up call and the country has to invest in its own innovators, so as to create different applications to boost revenue flows.

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