Industry Findings: Ongoing fiber expansion and renewed infrastructure investment through 2024–2025 strengthened aggregation conditions in Harare and Bulawayo. As connectivity projects progressed across major corridors, organizations gained more practical opportunities to host origins and cache tiers within national boundaries. End users increasingly adopted caching strategies designed to reduce long-haul transit exposure, stabilize throughput, and support predictable delivery for streaming, mobile data, and enterprise applications. Improvements in broadband availability and metro-fiber reach contributed to more stable routing behavior, while rising digital participation underscored the importance of dependable backhaul, resilient last-mile performance, and diversified interconnection options. These shifts encouraged delivery architects to evaluate multi-path designs suited to Zimbabwe’s infrastructure profile, ensuring consistent service quality despite regional disparities in access conditions.
Industry Player Insights: Major contributors shaping local delivery include Econet, TelOne, ZOL, and Dandemutande. Econet expanded enterprise-network and backbone-peering capabilities throughout 2024, improving conditions for domestic content hosting. TelOne accelerated national fiber initiatives and advanced wholesale-interconnect offerings that increased the suitability of additional PoP locations. ZOL extended metro-fiber and business-broadband reach, enabling closer placement of cache tiers for media and enterprise services. Dandemutande continued providing carrier-grade colocation and interconnection environments that support low-latency routing and reliable distribution paths. Collectively, these providers expanded Zimbabwe’s capacity to support localized digital workloads and strengthened the foundation for more predictable in-country delivery.