Vodacom Central Region, covering the Free State and Northern Cape provinces, switched on 21 new 3G- and 4G-enabled base station sites in deep rural areas across the province during March and April. The telco says these base stations, deployed across 21 villages, will provide connectivity in some of the big local municipalities in Free State...
Vodacom customers can now buy lunch and pay later through the telco’s new financial offering, Voucher Advance. The new lending proposition from the mobile operator allows Vodacom customers access to a voucher starting from R25, interest-free, from a food outlet, or a R250 voucher from a retailer. Once a voucher has been issued, customers will...
Vodacom Group, part of Vodafone Group, will work with AUDA-NEPAD to build digital infrastructure to manage vaccinations across up to 55 countries, following successful deployments in South Africa – to manage Covid-19 vaccinations – and in Mozambique, Tanzania and Nigeria – to manage infant inoculations. According to a statement released to the media, the roll-out...
Vodacom has placed digital transformation as the nucleus of its new brand positioning – Further Together – unveiled yesterday, marking the start of a new chapter to connect consumers to the digital economy. The telco says the COVID-19 upheaval, which defined most of last year, helped it transform and refine its approach of connecting people...
The South African National Treasury has awarded Vodacom with a new mobile communication services contract. “Truly, we are excited to continue our partnership with government for another five years and we will deliver to accelerate its digitalisation programme through the new RT15-2021 transversal contract,” says Chief Officer for Vodacom Business, William Mzimba. “Through the previous contract,...
Cell C’s migration of its contract and broadband customers to Vodacom’s network is taking longer than anticipated and has not been completed by February as planned. This is feedback from the mobile operator which was answering questions from MyBroadband about the migration. Cell C is in the process of shutting down its radio access network...
Vodacom and Mondia have partnered to launch ‘Mum & Baby’ across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Mum & Baby is a free-of-charge mobile health intervention service that provides subscribers with maternal, neonatal and child health information designed to encourage good health practices amongst pregnant women, mothers, partners and caregivers. Mondia creates Mum &...
Vodacom has partnered with Google to give away hundreds of Android-powered smartphones to communities across Limpopo, South Africa. This move forms part of the companies continued efforts to “reduce the digital divide” and offer many who reside in deep rural communities “access to the internet for the first time”. “At Vodacom we are optimistic about...
Numerous Cell C users have in recent weeks complained of network connectivity issues amid the operator’s migration of its contract and broadband customer base to Vodacom’s network. The Cell C Downdetector page has reflected “Possible problems at Cell C” intermittently over the last few days, with a myriad of reports claiming bad or no connectivity for data,...
The ongoing legal tussle between the Lesotho Communications Authority (LCA) and mobile network operator Vodacom Lesotho looks likely to continue as both parties remain determined to stand their ground. In October 2020, the regulator revoked Vodacom’s operating licence and ordered the company to pay R134-million in fines. Subsequently, after heading to court, the operator had...
