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.
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The regulator in Lesotho in south-eastern Africa is in the middle of a battle with the country’s biggest operator, an offshoot of South Africa’s Vodacom.
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The World Bank has warned the government of Ethiopia not to take measures that hinder the development of telecoms in the country.
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Kenya’s telecoms regulator has criticised two of the country’s three mobile operators for poor service and threatened sanctions.
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Ethio Telecom, the monopoly provider in Ethiopia until two new operators are licensed in March, has hired KPMG to determine its economic value in advance of a part-privatisation.
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A US government agency is supporting Vodafone’s consortium that is bidding for one of Ethiopia’s two new telecoms licences with a loan of US$500 million.
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The South Africa regulator has given operators another four months’ use of spectrum that was due to expire on Monday.
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Vodafone is using last year’s acquisition in the internet-of-things (IoT) business to support its plan to help reduce carbon emissions.
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Vodacom is to invest heavily in improving broadband services in the South African region of KwaZulu Natal, building fibre networks and 4G base stations.
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South Africa’s regulator is about to invite telcos to apply for spectrum to offer 5G services, replacing the temporary spectrum awarded in April.
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The market for balloons, airships and other alternatives to mobile phone towers will be worth $4 billion in revenues over the next decade, according to a new report.
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Troubled South African operator Cell C will split off some of its assets as part of an attempt to restructure its debt.
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Heineken’s CEO Jean-François van Boxmeer is to join the Vodafone group board in July and become chairman of the company in November.
