Zimbabwe - Econet Wireless consolidates prepaid packages.

Zimbabwe operator Econet Wireless has amalgamated all its prepaid packages under the single Buddie brand. This means that business Partna and Liberty subscribers now fall under the Buddie package. The idea, according to Econet commercial director M George Barbaressos, is to unify and therefore simplify the subscription plans. According to the Herald newspaper, the Liberty and Prepaid Business Partna were introduced during Zimbabwe's decade of economic downturn. In the current more stable economic environment, the three different prepaid plans by the same mobile carrier only served to confuse subscribers, and according to CEO Douglas Mboweni, courted …