Each time there is a major power failure in an area, the company is forced to shut down the base station, effectively cutting off thousands of people from service.
The installation of more generators will go a long way in improving the quality of service."
Econet yesterday also assured its customers that measures have since been taken to restore normal supply of recharge cards to the market without delay.
Recharge cards for Econet pre-paid subscriber have been in short supply over the past few days following the increase in tariffs on July 10.
As these measures take effect, the company said customers should expect a dramatic improvement in the availability of airtime vouchers over the next few days.
"We encourage our customers to make more use of these electronic airtime purchase systems, which are more reliable and efficient than buying from street vendors," said the company.
It said the shortages had been due to a range of supplier bottlenecks, which had now been attended to.
Econet has widened subscribers' access to airtime recharge through an extensive electronic value distribution network.
These are a chain of retail outlets nationwide from which customers can easily access airtime electronically via point of sale terminals.
Meanwhile, Mr Mboweni also revealed that the company's international contractors who had suspended work during the election period had all returned, and were now busy with work to expand the network capacity from 800 000 to 1,2 million subscribers.
Mr Mboweni said due to the delays, work that had been originally set for completion by the end of August would now be completed by end of November.
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