Vodacom and MTN groups’ fintech arms now process a combined value of over $1-trillion/year in transactions.
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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.
Severe weather has cut power across dozens of Cape towns, with restoration delayed by unsafe conditions.
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Vumatel has hit one million fibre subscribers, reaching the milestone far faster than Telkom’s ADSL did in South Africa.
The US is using offtake deals and state funding to challenge China’s dominance over African critical mineral supplies.
Vodacom Group-controlled Vodafone Egypt has secured additional mobile spectrum from the Egyptian regulator.
Nersa has granted Eskom steeper tariff hikes over the next two years after admitting errors in earlier calculations.
Prosus plans to sell more than $2-billion in non-strategic and underperforming assets this financial year.
Eskom says 140 000 customers are free of load reduction as smart meter roll-out and generation gains gather pace.
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China’s Xi Jinping is wasting no time in positioning himself as the premier defender of the international trading system.
Elon Musk has expanded his lawsuit against ChatGPT maker OpenAI, adding federal antitrust and other claims.
Bob Iger returned to Walt Disney as CEO in 2022 with a bold promise of making streaming profitable. He’s done it.
A showdown between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul on Friday is the latest one-two punch from Netflix.
