Egypt Telecoms News
Strategy & Change
Vodafone's Egyptian exit agreed as Read’s scale-back continues
STC to pay $2.4bn for controlling stake in Vodafone Egypt, at modest valuation. Deal aimed to close by mid-2020. Groundwork of _VOIS Egypt separation previously completed.
Strategy & ChangeVodafone Shared Services gets a facelift for digital era
Self-styled “Intelligent” division nods to shift towards automation and AI.
- Partnerships & Alliances
Vodafone Egypt awarded VMware Cloud Verified status
VfEg becomes first service provider in Egypt to gain the status.
- M&A
Vodafone strains Telecom Egypt out of Egyptian services arm
Awkward co‑ownership with incumbent dealt with. A step in recalibration of Shared Services — and possibly VfEg too.
- Partnerships & Alliances
Vodafone Egypt extends Ericsson partnership
Egyption OpCo extends existing BSS partnership with supplier Ericsson to support 5G and IoT.
- Suppliers & SCM
Vodafone’s Partner and Supplier People Moves, October 2019
Latest partner/supplier people movement highlights include: Amazon Web Services, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Red Hat.
- People
Vodafone Rest of World Region People Moves, October 2019
Latest people movements include: Aneeqah Vahed, Tanja Vermeulen, Nuno Duarte, Marwan Amin, Zeinab Sono, Tushir Malik, Sahil Verma.
- Financial & Performance
Vodafone Egypt fined, following service outage
Vodafone Egypt fined EGP 10m, for service disruption.
- Partnerships & Alliances
Vodafone Egypt chosen as digital partner for new healthcare system
VfEg among the beneficiaries of a local visit in May 2019 by Liam Fox, UK Secretary of State for International Trade The visit was accompanied by the signing of new partnership agreements.
