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Vodacom South Africa launches own-label smartphones, tablet
2015-10-06 10:58:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Vodacom South Africa has introduced four own-brand devices to its range. One is a smartphone called Smart Ultra 6, which has a 5.5-inch full HD IPS display, octa-core chipset, Android 5.0 Lollipop OS, 13 MP premium rear camera and 5 MP front camera. The phone retails at ZAR 3,199. Postpaid customers will get 1 GB of data for three months and a Top Dog voucher at ZAR 199 per month on the uChoose Flexi 110.
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Vodacom service revenue growth improves to 4.7%
2015-07-23 13:29:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) African mobile operator Vodacom reported revenues for the June quarter up 7 percent year-on-year to ZAR 19.56 billion, led by a steady improvement in its home market South Africa and double-digit growth elsewhere in Africa. Organic service revenue growth was 4.7 percent, to a total ZAR 15.66 billion, with a 2.8 percent rise in South Africa and an 11.3 percent increase at the international operations. Data grew to over 30 percent of service revenue, or ZAR 4.85 billion, up 35.2 percent from a year earlier. The active customer base increased 6.5 percent to 63.5 million at the end of June, and data customers were up 10.8 percent to 28.0 million. Compared to March, Vodacom added 1.2 million new customers in South Africa, for a total 33.31 million. At the international operators, the DRDC led growth, gaining just under 700,000 new customers, and Mozambique added 154,000 new subscribers, while the Tanzania base was slightly lower on a sequential basis.
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Vodacom insists outsourcing won't lead to redundancies
2015-07-15 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
South African operator treads fine line as rival MTN's strike woes drag on.
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Icasa: Vodacom must meet BEE rules on Neotel
2015-07-04 08:41:19| Telecom - Topix.net
Vodacom Group Ltd, the African unit of Vodafone Group PLC, can buy Neotel Pty Ltd if it complies with South Africa's black-ownership rules and brings broadband internet to rural areas, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa said. Black economic-empowerment groups must hold 30-percent equity of the individual licence that is being transferred, Icasa said in a government gazette on Thursday.
South Africa regulator approves Vodacom bid for Neotel
2015-07-01 10:09:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) South Africa's Competition Commission has recommended to the Competition Tribunal that Vodacom's intended purchase of Neotel be approved on condition that the mobile company does not cut Neotel jobs and invests ZAR 10 billion in the company within five years. The ZAR 7 billion deal was approved by South Africa's communications regulator, Icasa, earlier in June. The commission said Vodacom shall not directly or indirectly use Neotel's spectrum for the purpose of offering wholesale or retail mobile services to any of its customers for a period of two years from the approval date or 31 December 2017, whichever is earlier. The Commission found that the proposed transaction is likely to substantially lessen or prevent competition in the mobile services market. Vodacom is the market leader in mobile services markets and the additional spectrum from Neotel will result in spectrum concentration effects that will likely consolidate Vodacom's dominant position. According to the competition commission, the acquisition will confer first mover advantages to Vodacom in network speed, capacity and mobile offerings. Vodacom will not be constrained by other competitors as they are unlikely to match its offering. These factors, the commission said, taken together will likely lead to reduced choice and higher prices to end customers in the absence of effective constraints on Vodacom. The acquisition will now go before the competition tribunal for a final decision. Competitors including MTN, Africa's biggest wireless operator, and Cell C have previously said they oppose the purchase because they say Vodacom would become too dominant.
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