Browsing: Vodacom South Africa

Amazon’s R59/month Prime bundle costs less than Prime Video alone once did. There’s method to this madness.

South Africa’s banks built their MVNO defence around voice. But the war has moved to data, where telcos hold the advantage.

Telkom CEO Serame Taukobong sees at least four to five more years of data-driven growth, and not only on mobile.

With voice revenue falling and customer growth stalled, Vodacom is struggling to cash in on surging data traffic.

Longer contracts have become South Africa’s answer to unaffordable smartphones – but at a big long-term cost to consumers.

Vodacom shares rose more than 5% in early Tuesday trade on the JSE after group flagged a 20-25% jump in earnings.

The sequencing reflects how stubbornly low-end devices and machine-to-machine sensors remain tied to legacy connectivity.

Could MTN’s sharp Ebitda decline be blamed in part on a prepaid feature Telkom offered all along?

Vodacom says it has achieved 5G upload speeds above 250Mbit/s, though the technology is not yet being deployed commercially.

Geopolitics, rising infrastructure costs and growing incidents of cyber fraud are top of the GSMA’s agenda.