With voice revenue falling and customer growth stalled, Vodacom is struggling to cash in on surging data traffic.
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Vodacom Group Shameel Joosub has warned of severe upward pressure on device prices as the RAM crisis intensifies.
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Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub has compared voice’s decline to the same trajectory SMS followed into irrelevance.
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