EcoCash, Zimbabwe’s largest mobile money platform, says it has obtained regulatory approval to raise its charges by an average 10% from next month.
The company, which last reviewed its charges at the
beginning of the year back in January, will marginally increase its charges
effective September 19, 2021.
According to a price schedule published on the company’s
website and social media pages at the weekend, EcoCash subscribers will soon be
paying an extra ZW$1.37 when sending ZW$100 to a registered user, up from the
previous charge ZW$8.01.
Consumers buying ZESA electricity tokens using EcoCash, or
paying for goods valued at ZW$100, will pay an additional ZW$1.24 and ZW$1.20,
up from ZW$7.76 and ZW$7.71 respectively from September 19 onwards.
The schedule reveals that there will however be no additional
changes on all transactions above ZW$3 000, with users continuing to pay 1.91%
for sending money and 1.85% for making bill and merchant payments. But
subscribers will now be required to part with ZW$18.37 more when transferring
amounts between ZW$2 000 and ZW$2 499.00.
Transactions above ZW$500, as in previous tariffs reviews,
will continue to attract the statutory two percent Intermediated Money Transfer
Tax.
There was no immediate comment from the company on the
price adjustment, coming at a time the prices of goods and services in the
country have more than doubled in the nine months since EcoCash’s last tariff
review.
The EcoCash tariff schedule made no reference to the ZW$5
000 daily transaction limit imposed on mobile money transactions in May 2020.
Although the monetary authorities last year promised to
review the EcoCash weekly limit of ZW$35 000 “continuously, in line with the
requirements and convenience of the transacting public”, there has so far not
been any changes made to the transaction limits. Newsday
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