Zimbabwe telecoms infrastructure by the numbers. Province coverage, operator deployments, and sector trends from the POTRAZ Q1 2026 report.
Primary 5G zone. Econet operations concentrated here.
Borrowdale, Avondale, Highlands corridor.
Partial rollout, city centre only. Econet.
Peri-urban spillover from Harare corridor.
Limited. Harare–Bulawayo corridor.
Small urban node. Eastbound corridor.
5G is exclusively urban (POTRAZ Table 10). 18.94% population coverage nationally. Econet operates 353 of 379 total 5G base stations. Zone estimates are interpolated — not from the POTRAZ report.
| Operator | Market share | Subscribers | Stations 2G / 3G / LTE / 5G |
|---|---|---|---|
| Econet WirelessEW · Zimbabwe | 12.93M | G2 3055G3 2071LTE 1951G5 353 | |
| NetOne CellularNO · Zimbabwe | 4.05M | G2 1443G3 1631LTE 1778G5 26 | |
| Telecel ZimbabweTC · Zimbabwe | 305K | G2 671G3 435LTE 17G5 0 |
Province-level coverage from POTRAZ quarterly reports. National figures are verbatim. Province estimates interpolated from Table 9 station distribution.
Real tower GPS coordinates from OpenCelliD filtered to MCC 648. Clustered markers by zoom level with per-tower technology metadata.
Address or coordinate input querying Econet and NetOne coverage APIs to return real-time signal availability at any point.
ZimConnect is an open data project that makes Zimbabwe's quarterly telecoms data legible. Coverage statistics sit inside dense PDF reports. This site pulls them out and puts them on a map.
All national figures are verbatim from the POTRAZ Q1 2026 Sector Performance Report, published 23 June 2026. Province-level coverage percentages are estimates — interpolated from national totals and per-operator station distribution (Table 9). They are clearly labelled as such throughout the site.
Built by Spencer Chakabva, based in Harare, Zimbabwe.
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