Browsing: Safaricom

Vodacom had 73.6m active customers across its various markets at the end of December, an increase of 13% year on year, the JSE-listed telecommunications group said on Wednesday in a

Revenue from data at Vodacom South Africa, the telecommunications group’s biggest market, has topped voice revenue for the first time, interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2017 show. Data revenue in South Africa

Vodacom Group slumped the most in more than seven years after South Africa’s antitrust regulator started a probe into a contract with the national treasury that may constitute an abuse of market dominance. The September

Vodacom shares tumbled almost 8% on Wednesday after parent, the UK-headquartered Vodafone, said it had sold a chunk of its shares worth almost R15bn to meet the JSE’s 20% free-float requirement. Vodafone said it sold about

Vodacom Group sees the expansion of mobile banking services into new markets in sub-Saharan Africa as a top priority following a shareholder vote to rubber stamp its purchase of a 35% stake in Safaricom, Kenya’s biggest company

Friday’s speculation reported by Bloomberg that NTT Group was looking to offload African operations it acquired when it bought Dimension Data in 2010 left me a little uneasy. It isn’t clear if the assets in question are all the group’s

Safaricom may expand its popular mobile banking service M-Pesa into countries such as Nigeria and Angola, as East Africa’s biggest company grapples with regulatory scrutiny in its home market of Kenya. The sale of a 35% stake