Vodacom
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Vodafone and its African subsidiary Vodacom plan to use the service as part of Project Kuiper’s 2024 Beta testing of the network -
Vodafone Business has expanded its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to include Spain as one of its markets to use the service.
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M-Pesa, the pioneering mobile money platform run by Safaricom and the Vodacom group, is now run from a cloud operations centre in Kenya.
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Vodacom has landed the 2Africa subsea cable at its landing station on South Africa’s Eastern Cape.
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Safaricom Ethiopia has expanded to five additional cities, bringing its national footprint to 21 cities just three months after launching on 6 October.
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Vodacom has taken a 55% majority stake in Vodacom Egypt; the company has announced.
Forthcoming events
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Government officials in Ethiopia have told media that the country will open bidding for its second telecoms operator licence this month.
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Vodafone has seen a 3.3% increase in service revenues across Europe and Africa, following growth in both the consumer and business segments.
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The Ethiopian Communications Authority (ECA) has announced that Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia PLC has been issued with a final licence. However, over half of the winning consortium's financing could be in doubt due to US sanctions.
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Companies have 30 days from today to tell the government of Ethiopia if they are interested in buying a 40% stake in state-owned Ethio Telecom.
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Ethiopia has officially granted the Safaricom Vodacom Vodafone partnership with its telecoms licence, allowing it to compete with Ethio Telecom, the monopoly until this week.
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Vodacom KwaZulu-Natal has deployed 84 new base station sites following an investment of R100 million (US$7.3 million) over three financial periods as part of its rural coverage acceleration programme.
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MTN is considering making a second attempt to win a telecoms licence from Ethiopia, the CEO has told shareholders.
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Vodafone will spend US$8 billion on building its new network in Ethiopia, according to the country’s prime minister, Abiy Ahmed.
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Ethio Telecom has gained a head start against its likely competitors by launching its mobile money service this week.
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The successful bidders for Ethiopia’s telecoms licences will be able to offer mobile money services, according to a weekend report.
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Ethiopia received just two bids, from MTN working China’s Silk Road Fund and a US-backed and Vodafone-led consortium, for its two telecoms licences this morning.
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Huawei has secured the business for the latest expansion of 4G services in Ethiopia’s monopoly operator, Ethio Telecom.
