Browsing: Vodacom

Using the latest mobile broadband technology, Vodacom has achieved real-world mobile broadband speeds of in excess of 170Mbit/s. The speeds were achieved in Llandudno, near Cape Town, but the operator has warned that users in the rest of the country

Cellphones and Sim cards. They go together like bread and butter, or socks and shoes. Except they won’t for much longer, as the industry gears up for an era where Sim cards are consigned to the history

MTN has joined the growing list of South African telecommunications operators offering next-generation LTE-Advanced broadband services offering theoretical speeds in excess of 100Mbit/s over mobile connections. The company said

Vodacom South Africa is considering various options for its sluggish mobile money transfer service, M-Pesa. M-Pesa allows customers – particularly unbanked users – to transfer money

Vodacom is seeking the dismissal of a court bid that claims the company stole the idea for its “Airtime Advance” product. Airtime Advance allows subscribers who run out of airtime to get R5 or

MTN South Africa has taken an impairment charge of R592m related to over-spending on handsets in 2015. Parent MTN Group revealed in its annual results, published on Thursday, that

India’s Tata Communications is putting on a brave face after Vodacom announced on Tuesday that it was walking away from a R7bn deal to acquire Tata’s South African subsidiary Neotel. In a letter to shareholders, Tata Communications

The deal is off! Vodacom will no longer acquire Neotel. “Vodacom announces that its proposed acquisition of the majority of Neotel’s assets related to its fixed-line business has lapsed due to regulatory complexities and certain conditions not being