KAMPALA: Southern Africa's Liquid Telecommunications has reportedly acquired Zimbabwe Online (ZOL), Zimbabwe tech site techzim reported. The website reported that the company will remain independent in terms of branding and operations, but will be part of the parent company's portfolio. ZOL is one of Zimbabwe's biggest ISPs offering fiber-opticcs, VSAT and wireless internet services around Zimbabwe. “Liquid Telecom, a subsidiary of the Econet Wireless Group, is a major fibre player in Southern Africa and currently working on one of the longest fibre networks in the region spanning Lesotho, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia and the DRC. Liquid Telecom also operates satellite internet facilities in the United Kingdom, Botswana, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Somalia, Burundi, Niger and Kenya,” wrote techzim. With the new acquisition, Liquid's Zimbabwe operations will become Zimbabwe's biggest largest internet company in terms of infrastructure, volume of traffic and customer base. So far it looks like ZOL will become the new Ecoweb for the Zimbabwe operations of the Econet family. Ecoweb, an Econet ISP subsidiary, “has mostly been invisible over the past year or so as most of its services are now offered through the Econet Broadband division that was launched in October 2010,” the tech site reported. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/1MASb Tags: Liquid Telecom, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Online Section: Southern Africa, Tech
