“Please Call Me” Inventor Back In Court After Rejecting KSh 345 Million From Vodacom
We know what you're thinking, take the money and go but then Mr. Nkosana Makate has refused to negotiate with Vodacom after they offered KSh 345 million
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MTN threatens to take legal action against local service providers
Telco giant, MTN, is threatening civil and criminal action against Wireless Application Service Providers (WASPs) and service providers who put their customers' privacy at risk. This comes after revelations that Vodacom and MTN's location-bases services are being abused to track unsuspecting South Africans. Most recently, this technology was used to ...
Vodacom partners Alipay to launch fintech super app in SA
Vodacom South Africa has partnered with Chinese top fintech, Alipay, to build a We-chat-like super app for the South African Market. The app will be a one-stop-shop for customers and merchants to transact affordably. Vodacom Financial Services will be the app's main operator, while Alipay will be the technology provider. ...
Loon seals deal to expand commercial internet service to Mozambique
Loon is expanding its footprints in Africa. Weeks after launching in Kenya, the loon has signed a deal with Vodacom to expand its network spread to Mozambique. This mark the second commercial deal across the African continent. As people struggle to adapt to the global changes in the face of ...
Vodacom launches Africa’s first 5G network in South Africa
South Africa has received Africa's 5G network commissioned by Vodacom. The network has been launched three major cities in the country comprising of Pretoria, Johannesburg, and CapeTown. The rollout will cover twenty lives sites, the company plans to further roll out the network across the country. This launch has been ...
Safaricom appoints Sitoyo Lopokoiyit to head M-Pesa Africa
Safaricom has appointed Sitoyo Lopokoiyit to head the newly created joint venture with South Africa’s Vodacom Group that will run the lucrative M-Pesa platform. Before his appointment, Sitoyo has been the Chief Officer for Financial Services in the company. His appointment is part of the process to establish the joint ...
Vodacom awaiting for greenlight to launch 5G commercial use in Africa
The Vodacom Durban July took place over the weekend and while the event is usually about glitz and glamour, Vodacom, LG, and Nokia took the chance to make it a bit geeky. At the Durban July, one of South Africa’s biggest horseracing events, Vodacom, partnering with infrastructure provider Nokia and ...
South Africans take on Mobile giants in bid to make them lower data prices
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, Telkom South Africa, Cell C and Vodacom demand ...
US-based mobile game publisher GameMine partners with South Africa’s Vodacom Group for game distribution
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 175 titles spanning all major mobile gaming genres. ...
Vodacom South Africa to acquire 35% stake in Safaricom for $2.6 billion
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% while the Kenyan government through the Treasury owns ...
MobiCash launches in South Africa as M-Pesa takes flight
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 the country. Though the exit of M-Pesa can't ...
Vodacom aims to bridge digital divide in Nigerian communities and schools without ICT access
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 Nigeria is still low, especially in public schools. ...
Vodacom Tanzania’s Rene Meza Resigns to Head Ooredoo Myanmar
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 America. "Rene Meza has considerable experience in leading ...
WTEC to train Nigerian girls on internet, social media | Vodacom concerned about wide gender gap in ICT
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 said the after-school initiative will give the benefiting ...
University Students to Get Bursary & Loans Via M-Pesa
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 m-pesa. By giving students educational and daily expenses ...
CEO Weekends: Vodacom Tanzania Launches Service to Allow Merchants Accept Mobile Payments
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 payments by using M-PESA. According to Kelvin Twissa, ...
Vodacom launches superfast 4G in SA
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 aggregation technology, download speeds of 270 Mbit/s were ...
Equity Bank unveils Eazzy 24/7 in Tanzania
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 as bill payment for DStv, funds transfer, airtime ...
Vodacom Modifies M-pesa For South African Market
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 loyalty. First launched in Kenya in 2007, m-pesa ...
Spotify To Partner With Vodacom Over Music Deal
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 that include a limited amount of free data ...
WAPA Stance on Incoming Cabinet & Neotel Acquisition
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 postal services in a bid to create a ...
Vodacom Tanzania Upgrades Data Centre With New Power Supplies.
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 will be divided into separate rooms and fire ...