Vodacom Group has cut its dividend and reported earnings that missed estimates as Africa’s biggest wireless carrier by market value absorbed the acquisition of a stake in Kenya’s Safaricom and expanded its network
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Vodacom Group continued to perform strongly in the 2018 financial year, adding 4.5m customers in South Africa and 2.5m in its international operations, it said on Monday. The JSE-listed telecommunications group, which
In the TalkCentral podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about communications regulator Icasa’s hearings last week into pay-television in South Africa. What was said, and what is likely to
South Africans are too reliant on mobile for Internet access and more investment needs to be made in fibre-based fixed-line infrastructure to address this, according to Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub. Speaking
South Africa should not wait for current policy discussions to be concluded before awarding 5G spectrum, despite the fact that 4G spectrum hasn’t been allocated yet because of years of delay. That’s the view
Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod sits down with Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub for a wide-ranging interview on the telecommunications industry in
When the continent’s largest mobile operator by subscribers, MTN, appointed Rob Shuter as group CEO, Stephen van Coller as one of its vice presidents and Ralph Mupita as chief financial officer in 2016, the strategy was plain
Vodacom said on Thursday that is has achieved 80% population coverage with 4G/LTE and claimed to be the first operator in South Africa to reach this target. Its 3G and 2G population coverage is 99.78% and
The department of telecommunications & postal services is actively redrafting the controversial Electronic Communications Amendment Bill, with the minister, Siyabonga Cwele, set to outline more details in the
William Mzimba, the former CEO and chairman of Accenture Africa, has been appointed as chief officer of Vodacom Group’s enterprise business, replacing Vuyani Jarana, who resigned in October 2017 to take