The trending hashtag in South Africa today is #DataMustFall, an online campaign to protest high charges for data that enables users enjoy the internet. The online campaign will complement the offline protesters, who are matching to the doorsteps of internet giants MTN,…
GameMine, a US-based mobile game publisher has partnered with South African’s Vodacom Group to provide a selection of its ad-free mobile games free of charge to Vodacom subscribers. During the promotional trial period, millions of Vodacom subscribers will enjoy GameMine’s more than…
South Africa’s Vodacom Group is set to acquire a 35% stake in Safaricom giving it an opportunity to diversify its revenue growth and profitability and build on Safaricom’s M-PESA platform for growth across the larger East Africa. Earlier Vodafone UK owned 40%…
Mobile payment firm MobiCash (not related to Kenya’s MobiKash) has partnered with cellphone payments company Boloro to launch in South Africa allowing townships and spaza shops to accept mobile payments days after Vodacom announced that it’s shutting down its M-Pesa business in…
Vodacom Business Nigeria has expressed its readiness to bridge the existing digital divide in Nigerian communities and schools that lack access to ICT. Managing Director of Vodacom Business Nigeria, Guy Clarke said at an event in Lagos. He said: “Internet penetration in…
Rene Meza has filed his resignation at Vodacom Tanzania, effective this September, to head Ooredoo Myanmar as CEO bringing on board over seventeen years of international experience in emerging markets having held leadership positions in telecoms businesses in Asia, Africa and Latin…
Lagos-based Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre has expressed its preparedness to train girls in public schools on the use of social media and the internet. In a statement signed by the Executive Director of the centre, Mrs Oreoluwa Lesi, in Lagos, the center…
Vodacom South Africa has partnered with Eduloan, an education finance and bursary administration firm to deposit directly Eduloan bursary and cash allowances into their m-pesa mobile wallet, a moe that will enable them to pay for some of their daily expenses using…
For our readers in Kenya, Lipa Na M-Pesa allows merchants, retailers and distributors to receive mobile money payments in a far more secure way. Vodacom Tanzania, has also launched a similar service dubbed LIPA KWA M-PESA to help the same group settle…
South Africa today had the first trials of Vodacom’s next development in 4G technology that promises the ability to download an entire 1GB movie in less than a minute. The test, which was conducted directly on a mobile handset and used carrier…
Equity Bank has launched its Eazzy 24/7 in Tanzania with the service accessible through Zantel, Airtel, Vodacom and Tigo. The mobile phone banking platform allows users to access banking services via mobile phones. It also allows customers to perform several transactions such…
Following a growing demand for mobile phone payment services in Africa, Vodacom had just redesigned M-pesa for the South African Market. The culmination of this redesign is the launch of a totally revamped service which addresses four key areas including distribution, registration, functionality, and…
Commercial music streaming service Spotify is looking to partner with Vodacom Group accordingt to a report by Bloomberg News, in a deal that will mark the music-streaming services first foray into the African continent. Vodacom plans to offer its wireless customers subscriptions…
Wireless Access Providers’ Association of SouthAfrica (WAPA) acting as a collective voice for the wireless industry and for independent wireless network operators has engaged top personel; Communications Minister Faith Muthambi, and Siyabonga Cwele as Minister of the newly-formed department of telecommunications and…
vodacom has ordered an energy centre from Flexenclosure to power the mobile network’s main switching centre in the capital Dar es Salaam. This follows fire damage of the previous energy centre in the Kwale data centre in Dar-es-salaam. The new energy centre…
