pawaPay incident
Performance degradation affecting Zambia Zamtel services
Resolved after 5 days 5 hours, affecting NFS :: Zamtel :: Payout and Zamtel :: Web Deposit and 1 more, on August 26, 2026.
We are seeing improvements in success rates and will continue monitoring the incident.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Aug 26, 2026, 10:28 AM UTC
We are experiencing degraded performance in the Zambia Zamtel services. We are investigating the issue.
- identified Aug 26, 2026, 05:10 PM UTC
This is a quick update to inform you that we are still experiencing degraded performance in our Zambia Zamtel gateways, but are closely following up on it with the mobile money operator. We'll provide an update as soon as possible.
- monitoring Aug 27, 2026, 03:49 AM UTC
We are seeing improvements in success rates and will continue monitoring the incident.
- identified Aug 27, 2026, 06:34 AM UTC
This is a quick update to inform you that we are still experiencing degraded performance in our Zambia Zamtel gateways, but are closely following up on it with the mobile money operator. We'll provide an update as soon as possible.
- identified Aug 27, 2026, 07:46 AM UTC
This is a quick update to inform you that we are still experiencing degraded performance in our Zambia Zamtel gateways, but are closely following up on it with the mobile money operator. We'll provide an update as soon as possible.
- identified Aug 27, 2026, 08:48 AM UTC
This is a quick update to inform you that we are still experiencing degraded performance in our Zambia Zamtel gateways, but are closely following up on it with the mobile money operator. We'll provide an update as soon as possible.
- monitoring Aug 27, 2026, 11:18 AM UTC
We are seeing improvements in success rates and will continue monitoring the incident.
- monitoring Aug 27, 2026, 01:02 PM UTC
This is a quick update to inform you that we are still experiencing degraded performance in our Zambia Zamtel gateways, but are closely following up on it with the mobile money operator. We'll provide an update as soon as possible.
- monitoring Aug 27, 2026, 03:14 PM UTC
This is a quick update to inform you that we are still experiencing degraded performance in our Zambia Zamtel gateways, but are closely following up on it with the mobile money operator. We'll provide an update as soon as possible.
- monitoring Aug 28, 2026, 12:54 PM UTC
This is a quick update to inform you that we are still experiencing degraded performance in our Zambia Zamtel gateways, but are closely following up on it with the mobile money operator. We'll provide an update as soon as possible.
- identified Aug 28, 2026, 04:23 PM UTC
This is a quick update to inform you that we are still experiencing degraded performance in our Zambia Zamtel gateways, but are closely following up on it with the mobile money operator. We'll provide an update as soon as possible.
- identified Aug 29, 2026, 07:46 AM UTC
This is a quick update to inform you that we are still experiencing degraded performance in our Zambia Zamtel gateways, but are closely following up on it with the mobile money operator. We'll provide an update as soon as possible.
- identified Aug 29, 2026, 08:45 AM UTC
This is a quick update to inform you that we are still experiencing degraded performance in our Zambia Zamtel gateways, but are closely following up on it with the mobile money operator. We'll provide an update as soon as possible.
- identified Aug 29, 2026, 02:49 PM UTC
This is a quick update to inform you that we are still experiencing degraded performance in our Zambia Zamtel gateways, but are closely following up on it with the mobile money operator. We'll provide an update as soon as possible.
- identified Aug 30, 2026, 09:08 AM UTC
This is a quick update to inform you that we are still experiencing degraded performance in our Zambia Zamtel gateways, but are closely following up on it with the mobile money operator. We'll provide an update as soon as possible.
- identified Aug 31, 2026, 10:17 AM UTC
This is a quick update to inform you that we are still experiencing degraded performance in our Zambia Zamtel gateways, but are closely following up on it with the mobile money operator. We'll provide an update as soon as possible.
- monitoring Aug 31, 2026, 10:57 AM UTC
We are seeing improvements in success rates and will continue monitoring the incident.
- resolved Aug 31, 2026, 03:41 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
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