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Vodacom

Company nameVodaCom
Company typePublic
SloganSouth Africa's Leading Cellular Network
IndustryTelecommunications
Founded1994
HeadquartersSouth Africa
Key peoplePieter Uys, CEO
ProductsGSM-related products &
Internet services

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Vodacom is a pan-African mobile telecommunications company, and was the first cellular network in South Africa. It provides GSM service to more than 35 million customers in South Africa, Tanzania, Lesotho, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Revenue for the year ended 31 March 2008 was 48.178 billion South African Rand. It was owned on a 50:50 basis by the South African telecommunications group Telkom and the British mobile phone operator Vodafone. On 6 November 2008 Vodafone announced that it had agreed to increase its stake to 65%, and Telkom said that it would spin off its remaining holding by listing it on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
Vodacom provides coverage to Mount Kilimanjaro, which used to make it the highest point in the world to be covered by GSM. It no longer is, as China Mobile now provides coverage at the top of Mt. Everest, the highest point in the world. Vodacom was aided by its optimistic advertisements at the early stages of the democratic South Africa, this includes the yebo gogo campaign which is still in effect today in South Africa. Vodacom is the leading cellular network in South Africa with an estimated market share of 58% and more than 23 million customers.

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Cellphone firm agrees to exchange models - Daily Dispatch Online Tweet this news
Daily Dispatch Online--Dylan Olding bought a phone from Cellucity -Vodacom- at Hemingways Mall on June11 with an understanding that it “comes with music” - meaning he could download ... - Date : Mon, 05 Jul 2010 04:57:45 GMT+00:00
'Vodacom, MTN abusing rates' - Business Report Tweet this news
Business Report--Vox Telecom has accused cellular giants -Vodacom- and MTN of abusing interconnection agreements that the two voluntarily entered into in ... - Date : Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:08:11 GMT+00:00
Rate cut costs Vodacom R600m - Times LIVE Tweet this news
Times LIVE---Vodacom-, South Africa's largest cellphone operator, says it has lost about R600-million in three months due to a rate cut imposed by the communications ... - Date : Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:46:07 GMT+00:00
TeleMasters announces third quarter payment to shareholders - ITWeb Tweet this news
ITWeb---Vodacom- and Cell C are expected to follow shortly. “Currently there is no sign of when final retail tariff pricing for the LCR industry will be confirmed, ... - Date : Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:32:17 GMT+00:00
Revamped BulkSMS.com brand for improved service offering - ITWeb Tweet this news
ITWeb---...- and an affirmation of its current prominence in the industry as a recipient of -Vodacom's- coveted Top Achievers Award earlier this year. ... - Date : Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:24:45 GMT+00:00
The Bad ... - Times LIVE Tweet this news
Times LIVE---Vodacom- said it has lost about R600-million due to a rate cut imposed by the regulator three months ago, and has warned proposed further cuts would be ... - Date : Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:36:31 GMT+00:00
Vodacom threatens court action on Icasa decision - Primedia Broadcasting - Eyewitness News Tweet this news
Primedia Broadcasting - Eyewitness News---Vodacom's- Nkateko Nyoka has questioned Icasa's legal right to cut the price cellular phone networks charge each other to take a rival's calls, without first ... - Date : Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:56:35 GMT+00:00
Botha gets Boks Tri-Nations call - Celtic League Tweet this news
Celtic League--Backs: Gio Aplon (-Vodacom- Stormers), Juan de Jongh (-Vodacom- Stormers), Jean de Villiers (-Vodacom- Western Province), Jaque Fourie (-Vodacom- Stormers), ... - Date : Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:32:44 GMT+00:00
Vodacom won't refarm spectrum for 3G - TechCentral Tweet this news
TechCentral--You can leave a response or trackback to this entry -Vodacom- has no plans to offer third-generation (3G) cellphone services in the 900MHz band, ... - Date : Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:41:33 GMT+00:00
Vodacom's consumer ADSL - iAfrica.com Tweet this news
iAfrica.com---Vodacom- already has its own 4Mb ADSL business service which competes against Internet Solutions' (IS) uncapped business offering, My Broadband reported. ... - Date : Mon, 28 Jun 2010 06:46:34 GMT+00:00



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