Browsing: Vodacom

Tanzania will allow foreign investors to buy shares in telecommunications companies listing on the domestic stock exchange after an initial public offering by the country’s biggest mobile operator stalled. Changes will be introduced

Vodacom claims to have become the first telecommunications operator in South Africa to achieve a speed test, across a mobile network, of more than 500Mbit/s. It achieved the speed using LTE-Advanced technology, also

Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub took home a total of R21,4m in the 2017 financial year, the group revealed in its annual report, published on Thursday. That’s a small decline on the R21,8m he was paid in 2016. Joosub’s 2017 package

Vodacom Group has appointed Jabu Moleketi, a former South African deputy finance minister, as its new chairman, replacing Peter Moyo, who is leaving after the annual general meeting on 18 July to take up the role of CEO of Old

Friday’s speculation reported by Bloomberg that NTT Group was looking to offload African operations it acquired when it bought Dimension Data in 2010 left me a little uneasy. It isn’t clear if the assets in question are all the group’s

Safaricom may expand its popular mobile banking service M-Pesa into countries such as Nigeria and Angola, as East Africa’s biggest company grapples with regulatory scrutiny in its home market of Kenya. The sale of a 35% stake

Mobile operator MTN is displacing rival Vodacom as the headline sponsor of the Springbok rugby team, SA Rugby announced on Friday. The telecommunications company has signed a three-year deal

Broadlink and iBurst parent Wireless Business Solutions is now called Rain. Its CEO, Duncan Simpson-Craib, sat down with TechCentral on Tuesday to talk about the name change. Also in the podcast, Simpson-Craib goes into

Telkom said on Monday that full-year earnings and the dividend both rose as South Africa’s biggest landline provider enters a new phase of growth by giving more autonomy to its four business units. Earnings per share excluding one-time items increased by