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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Vodacom is selling its enterprise operations in five African countries, the company – majority owned by the Vodafone group – has announced.
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Ethiopia will ask for tenders for new telecoms licences in September, with new competitors to Ethio Telecom to be announced before the end of 2019.
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Kenya’s Safaricom is to upgrade its 100Gbps fibre backbone to 400Gbps, to cater for the increasing amount of video being transmitted over the network.
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The South African government has withdrawn plans for an open-access wholesale mobile network, a proposal that was widely criticised by operators.
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Vodacom is the fastest 4G network in South Africa, according to a new survey out today, with speeds approaching 25Mbps.
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Helios Towers is upgrading and building backbone sites covering 1,800km in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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Ethiopia has been identified as one of the next big opportunities for telecoms operators looking at foreign investment, with the market set to open up in the coming years.
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Vodacom, the South African operator partly owned by Vodafone, is investing in its network in preparation for 5G once the auction of additional spectrum goes ahead.
