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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Mobile operator Vodacom is to use Alphabet’s Loon balloon-carried base stations to extend coverage in Mozambique.
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Vodacom has sold its business operations in Nigeria, Zambia and Côte d’Ivoire, and is waiting approval for the sale of its Cameroon operations.
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Africa’s first live 5G network supporting both mobile and fixed wireless services has gone live in the South African cities of Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town following a two-year network modernisation project.
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Ethiopia has set 11 May as the deadline for its consultation on the terms of the country’s first competitive telecoms licences.
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Vodacom South Africa has confirmed the names of its new chief officer for strategy and M&A and its new CTO, following the departures of Yolanda Cuba and Andries Delport last year.
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Michael Joseph, acting CEO of Kenyan operator Safaricom, has confirmed the company wants to bid for a telecoms licence in neighbouring Ethiopia in partnership with Vodacom and other companies.
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South African operator Vodacom is to launch 5G services in its home country this year, CEO Shameel Joosub said this morning.
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African wholesale operator Liquid Telecom is adding a 5G wireless network to its existing fibre offering in South Africa.
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Johan Dennelind has resigned as CEO of the Telia group, but will not leave until 2020.
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The head of South African mobile operator Cell C has told staff, customers and shareholders that the company is facing “financial and other challenges”.
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Mobile money pioneer Michael Joseph has returned as interim CEO of Kenya’s Safaricom following the death yesterday of Bob Collymore.
