Mobile World Congress, the wireless industry’s biggest conference, begins next week in Barcelona, where more than 100 000 people are set to see the latest smartphones, artificial intelligence devices and autonomous
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Vodacom Group shares fell the most in more than a month after Africa’s biggest wireless operator by market value reduced its first-half dividend amid weaker economic conditions in some of its key markets. The stock slumped as
Gone is “Power to You”. In is “The Future is Exciting. Ready?”. Vodafone and its major subsidiary Vodacom, which owns operations across sub-Saharan Africa, on Thursday announced a global brand overhaul aimed at refreshing the group’s
Vodacom Group slumped the most in more than seven years after South Africa’s antitrust regulator started a probe into a contract with the national treasury that may constitute an abuse of market dominance. The September
Vodacom shares tumbled almost 8% on Wednesday after parent, the UK-headquartered Vodafone, said it had sold a chunk of its shares worth almost R15bn to meet the JSE’s 20% free-float requirement. Vodafone said it sold about
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
Econet Wireless Global unit Liquid Telecom has appointed former Vodafone Group executive Kyle Whitehill to head up South African telecommunications operator Neotel and oversee the company’s expansion plans
Vodacom is buying a 34,9% indirect stake in Kenya’s largest mobile phone operator, Safaricom, from its parent company Vodafone. The South African-listed telecommunications group is buying 87,5% of
Safaricom is still facing the threat of being broken up as the Kenyan regulator weighs up a report on dominance in the country’s telecommunications industry, CEO Bob Collymore said. East Africa’s biggest company by market
MTN on Wednesday said group revenue increased by 7,1% year on year, supported by a 29,4% improvement in data revenue, suggesting a return to a firmer footing for the Johannesburg-headquartered emerging markets telecommunications giant. However, group subscriber