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...
Vodacom Tanzania Plc ended 2020 on a high note after a tough year following the loss of a large number of subscribers due to SIM card registration issues. According to the company’s second quarter of the year trading update released last week, its customer database crossed the 15 million threshold for the first time in...
Vodacom’s latest trading update revealed it spent R2.7 billion on its network over the last three months, which sends a signal to MTN that it is gunning for the top spot in network quality. Network quality is closely related to how much money an operator spends on its network, referred to as capital expenditure (Capex)...
Vodacom Tanzania has announced it will pay a total of TZS 3,928,312,789 (US$1.6-million) in dividend to its M-Pesa customers who have used the service over the past year. The company said the dividend payment covers the first quarter of the company’s financial year. Vodacom’s M-Commerce Director Epimack Mbeteni said that the profit will be paid...
Vodacom South Africa boosted investment in its network by 12.3% year on year in the quarter ended 31 December 2020, bringing capital expenditure to R2.7-billion from R2.4-billion in the year-ago quarter. The network investment came on the back of an 8.5% uplift in revenue to R19.7-billion, with service revenue climbing by 5.4% to R14.3-billion, parent Vodacom...
Mobile operator Vodacom Tanzania has announced the launch of two new smartphones, the Tecno RC6 (Tecno Babkubwa) and the Itel AC13 (Itel Kitonga). The company said the devices are available with an offer of free 60 GB’s for 12 months and 48 GB for 12 months respectively. Vodacom Head of Sales and Distribution, George Lugata,...
Vodacom and Cell C have reached a secret agreement which is behind the recent migration of Cell C’s contract and broadband user base to Vodacom’s network. On 13 January 2021, Cell C sent out a statement which announced: “the migration process has started with contract and broadband customers”. This was a month after the migration actually started....
Conspiracy theories which point to 5G as the source of the coronavirus are picking up again in South Africa where many new cases have been recorded since the start of the year. MTN and Vodacom, which have been offering mobile technology since December 2020, are singled out. Last week, South Africa’s Minister of Communications and Digital...
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) is planning to auction 4G and 5G radio frequency spectrum this year. In its Invitation to Apply (ITA), ICASA said spectrum in the 700MHz, 800MHz, 2,600MHz, and 3,500MHz bands are available to be assigned to qualifying applicants. The regulator received applications in response to its ITA from Cell...
