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Vodacom is Tackling Food Insecurity in SA Through This New Initiative

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Delivering the IT Solutions Needed for Seamless Business Operations

For over a decade, Vodacom Business has supported DHL Express with the IT infrastructure needed to maintain its leading position within the logistics industry across the African continent. As a business that depends on a reliable network, DHL Express’s IT infrastructure and system uptime are critical to providing the quality service that their customers expect. DHL Express needed an IT and communications partner who could scale and grow with them. Over the past 10 years, Vodacom Business has done just that. “Our business is about being able to efficiently and timeously provide services to our customers,” says Ken Balman, Head of IT DHL Express Sub Saharan Africa. “We needed a technology partner that could cover our multinational footprint while supporting and driving our digital agenda. Vo...

Top 10 Largest Telecom Companies in Africa

Sourced from the Guardian Nigeria. The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred digital transformation initiatives across Africa, but it has also affected the revenues of its largest telecommunication firms. Almost all of the companies in this list had their bottom lines affected by the global pandemic either positively or negatively, however, a key trend is clear – customer bases are growing across the board as Africa is steadily developing. These telecoms represent an important technology in the continent, the technology that enables and facilitates communication. A vital innovation for developing economies. The following list takes into account both total annual revenue and current user base/subscribers to rank the telecoms. Here are the top 10 largest Telecom companies in Africa ranked: 10. Globa...

Vodacom Partners With Trend Micro Expanding its Cybersecurity Offerings

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Pandemic Drives Surge in Digital Health Use Across Africa says Vodacom

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Vodacom Launches “Everyday-Ta!” Bundles with Free YouTube Data

Vodacom has launched three new 30-day promotional LTE bundles available exclusively to new prepaid customers. Everyday-ta! Data Bundles come standard with a bolt-on YouTube data allocation, enabling customers to stay connected on SA’s leading network. The bundle will be rationed in equal daily amounts, over the validity period with a YouTube allocation. For example, a customer opting for a 30GB Everyday-ta! Data Bundle at R299 ($20,98) will get 1GB anytime data, every single day for 30 days, plus 2GB of YouTube allocation valid for 30 days. These Everyday-ta! data bundles give customers the convenience of a daily data allocation. In the event that customers run out of data, there are great value offers available on the Just 4 You platform (*123#) or via the My Vodacom App. “We have deliber...

Vodacom Partners with Digital Parks Africa to Expand Data Centre Footprint

/* custom css */ .tdi_4_440.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_4_440.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } For more than a decade, Vodacom Business has provided premium data centre facilities to businesses across the country for hosting and managing information technology (IT) services. Now, in partnership with Digital Parks Africa, a provider of wholesale data centres for large-scale data centre needs, Vodacom Business can further support clients’ off-premise data centre requirements while offering the highest IT standards and services. Today, organisations depend on the effective use of technology more than ever.  Not only to support ongoing business processes but also to drive new sources of competitive differentiation. Despite the rise of digital services, many organisations ...

Vodacom Injects R100-Million to Drive Connectivity in KwaZulu-Natal

A Vodacom investment of R100-million ($73,137.60) has been injected into the KwaZulu-Natal region in South Africa and has led to the deployment of 84 brand new base station sites. This comes as part of the telco’s KwaZulu-Natal Region drive. The new sites were rolled out in 9 District municipalities and 14 local municipalities including Jozini, uMhlabuyalingana, uMfolozi, uMlalazi, uMsinga, uMzumbe, uMgeni, Ray Nkonyeni, Mandeni, eNdumeni, eDumbe, Msunduzi, Newcastle and Nqutu. This is part of Vodacom’s Rural Coverage Acceleration Programme, firmly aimed at expanding network coverage for people who live in deep rural and remote areas in South Africa. Vodacom hopes this investment and new infrastructure will augment the continued development of network infrastructure outside of urban areas ...

Vodacom Tanzania and Mdundo Partner to Launch New Premium Music Bundle

From left: DJ Bike, Nguvu Kamando (Head of VAS, Vodacom), DJ Feruuh, Martin Nielsen, DJ Summer, Prisna Nichaulous (Music Manager, Mdundo), Michael Okeje (Head of Growth, Mdundo). Image sourced from TechCabal. Vodacom Tanzania has announced a new partnership with African music distributing and streaming service Mdundo. Together the companies are launching a new music bundle for the telecom’s subscribers. As reported by TechCabal, this new bundle will give Vodacom Tanzania subscribers access to Mdundo’s premium service as well as a bevy of curated mixes from some of Tanzania’s top DJs. “Instead of struggling and moving from one platform to another, we as a digital valuing company, saw the importance of creating one bundle which will include all music genres, that’s why we also decided to par...

Safaricom Eyes an Opportunity to Expand into Ethiopia

Sourced from CGTN. Safaricom PLC is planning to extend its reach into Ethiopia, Kenya’s northern neighbour. Although not initially successful with its first few attempts, new changes within the Ethiopian government may prove beneficial for the mobile carrier to finally establish a presence within the country. Last month, the Ethiopian government said that it would be impossible for Safaricom’s M-PESA service to have any space in the market. The Ethiopian central bank about reiterated that no foreign financial institutions would be allowed to offer mobile money services in the country. Now, the good news for Safaricom is that the company was recently offered a window to buy into Ethio Telecom, the country’s mass-monopoly provider whose privatisation process is currently underway. This is on...