All Vodacom South Africa articles – Page 6
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Public Affairs
SA preps plunger for 4G/5G spectrum blockage
Vodacom’s long wait for more network resource in its home market appears to be coming to an end, although false starts have been seen before in SA.
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Ojiambo leaves Safaricom; Vodacom welcomes Rand Merchant Bank’s Pranen Reddy
People movements at Vodafone’s African businesses.
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Products & Services
Vodacom moves benefits scheme to next phase
Vodacom aims to boost revenue by offering SwitchedONBenefits to businesses, supported by Australian partner Mobecom.
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Network & Infrastructure
Vodacom doubles down on smart-site tech
With access network emissions continuing to grow, subsidiary IoT.nxt’s technology being expanded to most of Vodacom’s SA sites. Vodafone interested for other markets.
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Operations
Vodacom brings in TechM to push automation
Services and systems integrator exploring ways to take bot-based task handling to next level.
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Vodacom and Vodafone RoW people movements, June 2020
Shake-ups across Vodacom Group as the SA OpCo gets reconstituted with Balesh Sharma as MD. Vodafone Turkey sees rotations.
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Strategy & Change
Vodacom puts home market business back in action
U-turn on Vodacom South Africa as it returns to becoming a standalone business with its own MD. Group creates simplified structure to manage expanded African portfolio.
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Network & Infrastructure
5G finally comes to South Africa
Spectrum-poor operator takes advantage of temporary licence from ICASA.
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Vodacom dismisses Cell C rumours
Vodacom dismissed suggestions that it could end up absorbing assets from beleaguered South African third mobile operator Cell C.
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Vodacom South Africa deploys theft-proof batteries
Zinc-bromine batteries from energy solutions provider Redflow were deployed at Vodacom South Africa base stations.
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Liquid tie-up agreed; 5G launch in pipeline
While SA auction delays impact services going into 2021, a link-up with the wireless group is to provide near-term access to 3.5GHz frequencies.
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Vodacom joins Cell C circlers
Talks centre on a subscriber add-on but apparently do not cover spectrum.
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Vodacom South Africa partners with Microsoft for DCB
VdSA partnered with Microsoft on its Direct Charge to Bill (DCB) facility.
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Products & Services
Vodacom working on API gateway
Vodacom Group is working on exposing application programming interfaces (API) to customers and partners through a gateway.
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Vodacom South Africa locks up cell batteries
South African law enforcement brought in to reduce battery theft incidents at Vodacom cell sites.
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Products & Services
Vodacom South Africa roaming partner Rain launches uncapped 5G-based FWA service
Rain South Africa, a data-only new entrant and Vodacom South Africa (VdSA) roaming partner, launched an “uncapped”, 5G-based Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) service in parts of Johannesburg and Tshwane.
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Products & Services
Vodacom looks for regional growth via digital media
South African operator retains exclusive expansion mandate within Vodafone.
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Strategy & Change
Vodacom Group attempting to combat vandalism problem
Each year, as many as 500 of Vodacom’s South African sites are damaged.
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Public Affairs
Vodacom repeats plea for end to spectrum dilly-dallying
SA spectrum stoppage continues to disrupt Vodacom planning. Government digs heels in for mid-2020 decision; dreaded WOAN still alive. VdSA response includes 2G voice network closure.
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Vodacom South Africa enabling Telkom access to network
Telkom South Africa’s customers can now use VdSA’s 2G, 3G and 4G networks.