South Africa’s biggest mobile network Vodacom wants a regulatory approach to data-driven over-the-top applications such as Facebook-owned WhatsApp. WhatsApp has grown to over 10m
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Vodacom’s group data revenues grew by more than a third in the past year, helping lift total revenue by 6,4% in the six months ended 30 September 2015. Group active subscribers increased by 6,8% to 65,1m in the same period. Strongest growth came from
Over-the-top services such as Internet messaging application WhatsApp, are eating Vodacom’s “lunch” but the company has no plan to block the service. This is according to group CEO Shameel Joosub.
Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub is clearly confident about the mobile group’s prospects. Joosub on Thursday snapped up almost R4m in Vodacom shares, according to a notice posted by the JSE on Friday morning. Joosub acquired 26 608 shares worth R3 981 678,60, the notice said
If Vodacom is allowed access to Neotel’s radio frequency spectrum assets, it will give the mobile operator an “unfair advantage” over MTN and other players in the telecommunications industry
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