This is a special edition of TalkCentral recorded on Monday, 14 November 2016. At Vodacom’s results presentation for the six months to 30 September 2016, TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod sat down with the group’s CEO
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Vodacom Group, Africa’s biggest wireless operator by market value, reported a 4,1% increase in first-half sales as strong growth in its home market of South Africa offset falling customer numbers in some international
The number of active 4G/LTE customers on Vodacom’s South African network has increased by 88,9% in the past 12 months, the operator revealed in its interim financial results on Monday. At the end of September 2016, Vodacom had 3,6m active 4G users
Data centres are suddenly de rigueur in Africa, with new facilities being deployed across the continent as telecommunications operators and independent infrastructure providers build facilities to cater for rapidly expanding demand from African consumers
Vodacom and MTN on Tuesday separately announced plans to deploy narrowband “Internet of things” networks in South Africa in 2017, with both companies planning to showcase the technology at an industry conference in Cape Town next
The department of telecommunications & postal services’s new director-general, Robert Nkuna, is going to have no time to ease gently into his new office in Hatfield, Pretoria. Indeed, he’s going to have to hit the ground running. The former councillor at
The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) on Monday called on South Africa’s mobile operators to “embrace the open-access spirit” of government’s national integrated ICT policy white paper by launching “genuine wholesale service offerings”. This, the association said
Wireless Business Solutions, the holding company of iBurst and Broadlink, has been ordered by the high court in Johannesburg to pay Vodacom more than R40m in interconnection fees. The court handed down the judgment in September – it has not been
Robert Nkuna is the new director-general of the department of telecommunications & postal services, replacing Rosey Sekese, who was “expelled” from her post after being suspended in 2015. Cabinet ratified the decision to appoint Nkuna, who is
A stake in Vodacom is back up for sale following the collapse of a previous deal in May that was aimed at increasing black ownership of the mobile operator. The Vodacom shares being sold by the Public Investment Corp