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Vodacom has launched a commercial LTE-Unlicensed, or LTE-U, site using unlicensed spectrum in the 5,8GHz band in a section of Sandton City, a large shopping centre in Johannesburg. However, even

South Africa is falling behind in broadband roll-out and access because of delays in allocating access to additional radio frequency spectrum bands to mobile operators, Vodacom warned on Monday. “Due to the country’s dependency on mobile

Strong demand for data services, underpinned by an aggressive investment in 3G and 4G/LTE network infrastructure, has led to a strong performance by Vodacom in the financial year ended 31 March 2016, results published on

The lack of readily available radio frequency spectrum is hobbling South Africa’s national broadband hopes, says mobile network Vodacom. South Africa’s government has been slow in implementing its digital broadcast migration project

Former Datatec chief financial officer Ivan Dittrich, who left the JSE-listed global IT group in 2012 to take the same position at telecommunications group Vodacom, replacing Rob Shuter, is returning to his old job. Datatec said

Econet and subsea cable operator Seacom are courting Neotel with the view to a potential acquisition, it was reported on Tuesday. The news comes after Vodacom was forced to walk away from its R7bn plan to buy Neotel

First National Bank’s mobile virtual network operator, FNB Connect, has announced it is zero-rating its customers’ WhatsApp data traffic. It’s the second operator in South Africa, after Cell C, to introduce zero-rated WhatsApp. All data

South Africa’s advanced banking sector and a lack of demand are key reasons for the local failure of Vodacom’s mobile money product M-Pesa, says an analyst. On Monday, Vodacom announced that