For the second time in less than two weeks, Vodacom was having major problems with its network in South Africa on Monday. (See the update at the end of this article for the latest.) Consumers took to social media, including Twitter, from about 2.30pm to complain that they couldn’t access the company’s network. Downdetector, a popular...
Vodacom South Africa says it has spent ZAR 1 billion on batteries over the last six months to ensure its network stayed up during load-shedding, MyBroadband reported. Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub said the power outages this year forced the operator to increase its back-up power investment. South Africa suffered the worst ever load-shedding in 2020, with...
Vodacom South Africa is building a platform to support mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) and expects to launch this soon after the conclusion of the spectrum auction next March. Supporting MVNOs – these are companies that use other networks’ infrastructure to launch their own-branded mobile offerings – is a requirement of the invitation to apply for...
Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub believes there could be other issues surrounding Telkom’s complaint to the Competition Tribunal over the legality of his company’s roaming agreements with SA’s mobile data-only network Rain. Telkom wants anti-trust authorities to make a call that the arrangements constitute a notifiable merger and should be subjected to scrutiny by the competition...
Vodacom is becoming one of South Africa’s biggest fibre-to-the-business (FTTB) and fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) players in South Africa. This was revealed in the company’s interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2020, which were released on Monday. As part of its results, Vodacom said it accelerated its fibre roll-out in the six-month period, more...
Vodacom Group hiked its interim dividend by 9.2% to R4.15/share (R3.80 previously) on strong headline earnings growth in the first half of its 2021 financial year and a dividend receipt from Kenya’s Safaricom. Headline earnings per share rose by 15.7%, helped by a once-off deferred tax rate adjustment of R705-million thanks to a cut in corporate...
The Vodacom Group is partnering with global financial inclusion policy and regulation organisation AFI under the global network’s public-private dialogue (PPD) platform to advance financial inclusion in Africa through systematic knowledge sharing with financial policymakers and regulators. According to a statement released to the media, the initial partnership with Vodacom, which runs until October 2021,...
Court papers filed by a former Vodacom employee claim that Vodacom should easily be able to calculate the revenue it earned from the Please Call Me service. Vodacom previously claimed it did not possess historical data older than six months that could be used to calculate how much it made from the service, but this has been...
Vodacom is investing over R320 million in a broadband infrastructure buildout in the KwaZulu-Natal province, with the bigger chunk of the budget going to the underserved rural areas, during the 2020/2021 financial year. The country’s leading mobile operator says this capital expenditure will go towards building new LTE base station sites in both urban and...
Telkom has approached the Competition Tribunal to declare the suite of spectrum arrangements between Vodacom and Rain as a merger – something that it believes should have been notifiable in terms of the Competition Act. The Telco says that the merger is notifiable because “the multiple agreements between Vodacom and Rain grant Vodacom use and control...
