Industry Findings: Enterprise and operator procurement is shifting to reward suppliers that can guarantee local hosting and booked validation windows, because in-country tenancy plus carrier adjacency materially lowers cross-border logistics and compliance risk for memory-heavy projects. Large telcos and systems integrators are packaging tenancy and test sequences into procurement bids to give buyers deterministic timelines for certification and deployment, which changes how vendors must demonstrate readiness to win contracts.
Industry Progression: Recent investments in domestic data-centre capacity are creating practical tenancy and validation options for local buyers. Econet’s launch of a multi-megawatt data-centre facility and TelOne’s published Tier-3 data-centre services expand in-country hosting and enable integrators to schedule local module testing and reduced cross-border certification. Those developments materially shorten time from validation to production for memory-centric systems and improve procurement certainty.
Industry Player Insights: Players operating in the Zimbabwe industry are Econet, TelOne, Liquid Intelligent Technologies, and NetOne etc. Econet’s new data-centre build and TelOne’s Tier-3 service offerings show why procurement panels now prioritise vendors who can supply in-country tenancy and scheduled validation windows; integrators that coordinate local hosting with nearby test corridors can reduce logistics exposure and accelerate module certification for enterprise deployments.