Browsing: Vodafone

Vodacom expects to have as many as 25m of its group customers using data services in the next two years, from 9m now, as the mobile broadband boom continues. In the financial year to 31 March 2011, the group

Vodacom has shrugged off the pressures of a maturing mobile market and falling wholesale call tariffs between networks to turn in a red-hot set of financial results in the 12 months to 31 March 2011, boosting

Competition in SA’s mobile communications industry may be getting tougher, but that isn’t going to stop Vodacom from turning in a robust improvement in earnings in its financial year to 31 March 2011 when it reports results next

Parliament has reappointed Marcia Socikwa as a councillor at the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) for a second term. Socikwa was one of two shortlisted candidates for the position, the other

The playground battle between Vodacom and Cell C over the latter’s new advertising campaign is a signal of something altogether more interesting than them throwing marketing dirt at each other: competition in

Cell C is ratcheting up its marketing war with rival Vodacom, launching a new advertising campaign targeting the latter’s rebranding to the red identity of its parent Vodafone. But Vodacom has already hit back, filing a complaint

Cell C has lost another battle at the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The cellular operator lodged a counterclaim against Vodacom and its parent, the UK’s Vodafone, after it lost an earlier battle at the ASA when it was told

“This is not an April fool’s joke. This is for real.” With those words, Vodacom Group CEO Pieter Uys took the wraps off Vodacom’s new red and white branding, bringing it in line with the corporate colours

Turns out our speculation was right on the money. Vodacom is ditching its familiar blue and green colours and rebranding to parent Vodafone’s red and white while retaining its name

There are more signs of Vodacom’s imminent rebranding. First, the cellular operator took down its hoarding at the top of the Ponte tower in Johannesburg, replacing it with a red and white background hinting that the refreshed brand