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Zimbabwe's first internet service provider (ISP), Data Control & Systems, was established in 1994. [2] In 1997, the national Posts and Telecommunication Corporation (PTC) built a national Internet backbone to sell bandwidth to private ISPs. [2] The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) oversees ISP licensing.
Zimbabwe was home to 1.50 million social media users in January 2023, equating to 9.1 percent of the total population. A total of 14.08 million cellular mobile connections were active in Zimbabwe in early 2023, with this figure equivalent to 85.4 percent of the total population. source; Internet hosts: 30,615 (2012)
The name "Zimbabwe" stems from a Shona term for Great Zimbabwe, a medieval city in the country's south-east.Two different theories address the origin of the word. Many sources hold that "Zimbabwe" derives from dzimba-dza-mabwe, translated from the Karanga dialect of Shona as "houses of stones" (dzimba = plural of imba, "house"; mabwe = plural of ibwe, "stone").
This Kalanga state ruled much of the area that is known as Zimbabwe today, and parts of central Mozambique. It is known by many names including the Mutapa Empire , also known as Mwenemutapa was known for its gold trade routes with Arabs and the Portuguese . [ 19 ]
A World Bank report in 2021 said only 34.8% of Zimbabwe's population had access to the internet. The country's internet service is dominated by three major mobile network operators.
The Internet (or internet) [a] is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) [b] to communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that consists of private , public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of ...
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The country has been officially called Zimbabwe since 1980, when its name was formally changed from Southern Rhodesia, the name given to it by the British South Africa Company in 1895. Southern Rhodesia was often simply called Rhodesia, particularly between 1964 and 1980. The name Zimbabwe Rhodesia was briefly used in 1979.