Vodacom South Africa announced the launch of Africa’s first super-app with the help from China’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. This new app, called VodaPay, will be available to South African customers in coming weeks, and will help Vodacom expand financial and e-commerce services in its home market in the absence of new high-speed broadband spectrum. [...]
Vodacom Group has announced its partnership with AliPay, which will allow customers to take out loans and shop online as well as make standard mobile payments. “The world is moving toward e-commerce, and while leveraging off what we already have we also need to grow that side,” Vodacom chief executive officer Shameel Joosub. Vodacom is [...]
Vodacom Group had announced their new partnership with World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) South Africa. This new project will help restore and conserve healthy oceans and ensure the sustainable production and consumption of seafood. “Due to overfishing, illegal and unregulated fisheries, [as well as] the impact of climate change and pollution, our oceans are [...]
Vodacom and Google will be releasing the movie, Zack Snyder’s Justice League on their Video Play service. It is unclear how the Video Play plans to release the movie as they offer both a rental and subscription plan and pricing is unconfirmed. Subscribers is expected to pay a rental fee of about R35 or a [...]
Vodacom South Africa is offering a six-month free membership of Amazon Prime Video to all new, existing and upgrading contract customers. The launch offer is also available to prepaid and top-up customers who have spent a minimum of ZAR 150 with the operator in the past 30 days. On top of the free subscription, there [...]
Vodacom South Africa has just announced the launch of its 5G network in the municipal districts of KwaZulu-Natal. Currently, 5G is available on 156 live 5G sites across the area of KwaZulu-Natal and supports both mobile and fixed wireless access services. Since May 2020, Vodacom has launched its 5G mobile network in Johannesburg, Cape Town, [...]
320 million rand ($19.5 million) is to be invested by Vodacom for the development of internet connectivity in both developed and less developing areas in KwaZulu-Natal. The proposed funding is for high-speed Internet connectivity and fiber optics’ investments are also planned for the future. By the end of the financial year 2012, Vodacom intends to [...]
Vodacom Group has partnered with digital platform Alipay to create a ‘superapp’ for South Africa which will be operational as from next year. “We already offer South African customers an ecosystem of innovative digital financial services products, but this technology partnership with Alipay will enable us to be on par with leading global digital counterparts [...]
MTN South Africa will unveil its 5G network this week and become the first of the telecommunication group’s 22 operations to introduce the next-generation broadband technology. The company will host a live event on its YouTube channel on the 30th June which will be hosted by the CEO Godfrey Motsa, the Chief Consumer Officer Mapula [...]
Vodacom South Africa has announced last week a simplified structure and hence created a standalone business. This decision will enable the independent company to continue to play a central role in the supervision of all its operations in Africa. It is the outcome of a major restructuring of the group’s activities across the continent. According [...]
