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Vodacom is the leading cellular network in South Africa with a market share of over 40% and more than 45 million users. [7] The company has an estimated market share of 58% and more than 103 million customers across Africa. [8] In 2021, Vodacom proposed a merger with fibre group Maziv. [9] In October 2024, the South African Competition Tribunal ...
South Africa's biggest mobile operator Vodacom is looking at taking a new low-price phone that uses the cloud to offer smartphone-style features to other African markets, an executive said on ...
Vodacom South Africa provides 2G,3G, 4G, and UMTS networks in South Africa. They also offers HSPA+ (21.1 Mbit/s), HSUPA (42 Mbit/s, 2100 MHz), Wi-Fi , WiMAX , and LTE services. Vodacom was the first cellular provider to introduce LTE in South Africa [ 55 ] [ 56 ] and on 7 April 2017, Vodacom's 4G+ network in Brooklyn Mall , Pretoria achieved ...
In 1993 GSM was demonstrated for the first time in Africa at Telkom '93 in Cape Town. In 1994 the first GSM networks in Africa were launched in South Africa. [16] In 1994, South Africa launched a mobile operations, underwritten by Telkom in partnership with Vodafone, with 36,000 active customer on the network. [17]
Vodacom Group <VODJ.J> plans to create a 'super app' in partnership with digital payment provider Alipay, part of China's Alibaba group <BABA.N>, to allow consumers in South Africa to shop online ...
In September 2010 Vodacom and Ned bank announced the launch of the service in South Africa, where there were estimated to be more than 13 million "economically active" people without a bank account. M-Pesa has been slow to gain a toehold in the South African market compared to Vodacom's projections that it would sign up 10 million users in the ...
On 18 May 2009, Vodacom entered the JSE Limited stock exchange in South Africa after Vodafone increased its stake by 15% to 65% to take a majority holding, despite disputes by local trade unions. [71] In April 2011, Vodacom rebranded with the Vodafone logo. [72]
The user interface technology of M-PESA differs between Safaricom of Kenya and Vodacom of Tanzania, although the underlying platform is the same. While Safaricom uses SIM toolkit (STK) to provide handset menus for accessing the service, Vodacom relies mostly on USSD to provide users with menus, but also supports STK. [23]