In the latest round of the legal battle between “please call me” inventor Nkosana Makate and Vodacom, the telecommunications giant has been ordered to hand over financial records related to the service, as well as value-added service contracts it had with other service providers, to assist in determining the value of the ground-breaking idea. The high...
Vodacom Group has appointed an interim chief financial officer to replace Till Streichert, who is leaving the telecommunications firm at the end of the month. “The board of Vodacom is pleased to announce the appointment of Sitho Mdlalose, currently the executive director: finance of Vodacom South Africa, to the role of interim chief financial officer of...
Vodacom Business and Microsoft South Africa have partnered in a Connected Digital Education initiative, based on the roll out of a Connected Digital Education Platform to enable remote learning with affordable connectivity. The platform will provide learners with access to tools, apps and resources (including cloud-based Office 365 for Education and Microsoft Teams for Education),...
VODACOM Tanzania has invested over 1.6tri/-from 2012 to-date putting it at the front seat of development and innovations in mobile services in the country. The investment made the largest telecom one of the major taxpayers after paying about 1.9tri/-various taxes to the government in the past five years. A partner with Auditax International, Mr Shabu...
Vodacom M-Pesa has expanded its international money transfer service portfolio to cover 200 countries. According to a statement released to the media, the mobile money service confirmed the development in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania during an event to mark an international day of family remittances. The event focused on the future of international remittance post-COVID-19....
Andries Delport is one of a handful of people who played a key role in building Vodacom into South Africa’s most successful telecoms operator.
Vodacom Group has “simplified its structure” following the recent expansion of its African portfolio, the company announced.
Vodacom said on Tuesday that it is working on a new model to reduce battery theft in its base stations that involves community members, working with police, to monitor and safeguard sites, especially in areas where such crime has become rampant.
Embedded SIM (eSIM) technology is becoming widely adopted in many modern smartphones, and South African mobile operators have started to support wearables with eSIMs.
While 5G does promise faster speeds than 4G, one of its major features is a dramatic improvement in latency.
