Strong growth in demand for data, where revenues have risen by 23,8% in the past year, has helped propel the Vodacom Group’s total sales higher by 12,2% to R18bn in the third quarter of its financial year to 31 December 2011. The JSE-listed telecommunications operator has reported a 41,2% increase in
Vodacom has secured a licence from the Financial Services Board to begin selling insurance products directly to its customers as it seeks to broaden its portfolio and expand its revenue streams in a maturing mobile market. There are few details available for now, but TechCentral has established that the cellular network
Banking group Absa and cellular network operator Vodacom have signed a “multimillion-rand agreement”, which they say will “accelarate the pace of mobile innovation and expand the range of banking and mobile services on offer to
Cellular network operator Vodacom may seek its own banking licence from SA regulators if its mobile transactions platform, M-Pesa, takes off in the way it expects it will in the next few years. Vodacom launched M-Pesa in SA last year
Mobile money platform M-Pesa has failed to live up to Vodacom’s expectations for the product in SA, Pieter Uys, the group’s CEO, has admitted. Vodacom has registered “more than” 100 000
A bubble similar to the dot-com mania of the late 1990s is inflating in the mobile payments industry in SA. And many of companies are going to be hurt when it bursts. That’s the view of Standard Bank director Herman Singh
Cellphone group Vodacom and its partner, financial services firm Nedbank, will launch M-Pesa, Kenya’s wildly popular money transfer service, in SA at the end of August. The two companies have set 31 August as the date for the product’s official SA launch.
A “land grab” is under way in SA’s cellphone and banking industries as big companies — retailers, banks and telecommunications…
Cellphone group Vodacom has confirmed what everyone already knows: it is partnering with Nedbank to bring Vodafone’s cellphone payments system,…
Jon Tullett returns to the show as your host this week, joining Brett Haggard and Duncan McLeod to discuss FNB launching PayPal in SA, the broadband price war, 3D films and games, and much more
