Zimbabwean ISP introduces data sharing

In what is bound to be a first, TelOne is introducing data sharing starting today, 1 March 2021. As one would assume based on the title of this article, the service will allow TelOne users to share data among themselves.Data sharing sounds simple enough it’s a wonder that as far as I can tell not one of the internet providers in our tea-pot shaped country had implemented it before this. One of the beloved members of our community who asked a question about this back in 2014, on Techzim answers, was helpfully told the only way they could do it was to send airtime.Yomix also only allows you to share airtime. If you want to send data to someone you have to create a custom bundle and pay for it using Ecocash or airtime. That’s as far as you can share data if you can call that sharing. You cannot share data that you have actually bought. So yeah, TelOne’s service is surprisingly a first.