Browsing: Shameel Joosub

Perhaps the biggest surprise to come out of this week’s conditional approval by the Competition Commission of Vodacom’s R7bn acquisition of Neotel is not that the commission has attached stringent conditions to the

Vodacom has expressed cautious welcome over one regulator’s approval of its planned bid to buy Neotel. The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa earlier this week

Vodacom’s top executives have taken an effective pay cut in the 2015 financial year thanks to reductions in short-term incentives, the telecommunications group’s annual report, published at the weekend, shows. In the year ended 31

Vodacom has apologised to a complainant in Fochville who put up banners slamming the mobile operator’s signal in the area. The disgruntled Vodacom customer, who doesn’t want to be named, said in a phone interview on Friday afternoon that the

A second attempt by Vodacom to launch the M-Pesa mobile payments platform in South Africa has flopped. On Monday, the mobile operator conceded that since it relaunched M-Pesa in the

Vodacom raised prices on 1 May in order to be in a position to reduce them in future, its CEO, Shameel Joosub, said on Monday. Speaking to journalists, analysts and investors at the

Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub said the telecommunications operator’s proposed R7bn acquisition of Neotel should have no conditions attached to it as it is “stepping up to the plate” to be South

They make millions every year. But Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko and Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub have agreed to spend a winter’s night on the cold streets of Johannesburg – and will even stump up a large amount

MTN South Africa CEO Ahmad Farroukh has echoed remarks made by Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub earlier this week that there’s a need for mobile operators to cooperate to reduce costs and improve

Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub has called on telecommunications operators to work more closely together to reduce costs in an environment where input costs continue to rise but where prices for telecoms services continue to decline. Joosub says one