Pepkor’s pivot from selling cellphones to financing them has seen FoneYam’s rental book swell to R2.6-billion.
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Travel eSim is Truecaller’s first move beyond spam protection in 15 years of operation, but it’s entering a crowded market.
Foreign providers sell Rica avoidance as an eSim feature, exposing a gap in South Africa’s Sim-registration rules.
Contactable’s Shaun Strydom argues operators that modernise Rica first will gain a decisive competitive advantage.
Kenya’s high court has blocked the 15% Safaricom stake sale to Vodacom, pending a constitutional challenge.
Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon delivered strong service revenue growth for MTN, lifting group Ebitda to R27.6-billion.
Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub has compared voice’s decline to the same trajectory SMS followed into irrelevance.
With voice revenue falling and customer growth stalled, Vodacom is struggling to cash in on surging data traffic.
Egypt and Safaricom drove a 22.9% jump in headline earnings as the South African business posted only modest growth.
Industry body says the fiscus-first model is starving the very sector South Africa depends on for connectivity.