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 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 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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
