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Articles tagged with: Vodacom
Vodacom First-Half Profits Drop 98% on Write-Downs
South Africa's vodacom has issued an interim trading statement for the six months up to October and reported a 16.5% growth in the group mobile customer base to 41.6 million. The company, now controlled by Vodafone, also reported an 8.0% growth in group EBITDA to R9.3 billion. more
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South African Operators Investigated for Collusion
South Africa's Competition Commission has confirmed it is again investigating the country's mobile operators for collusion, although it had cleared them of the accusation only a month ago. The company has subpoenaed documents from the companies and is now studying them. more
Related Tags: competition-commission, mtn, cell-c, three, South Africa
Vodacom Warns of Sharp Drop in Profits Due to Write-Downs
South Africa's vodacom has issued a trading statement that expects group revenue growth of approximately 10% and EBITDA growth of approximately 8% for the six months ended 30 September 2009, compared to the six months ended 30 September 2008. more
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Mozambique to Offer 3rd Mobile Operator License by Year End
The Mozambique government says that it will launch a tender for the country's third mobile phone license before the end of the year after delays caused by complaints from the two incumbents were overcome. more
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Vodacom launches a new vehicle tracking SIM card for South Africa
South Africa's vodacom has launched a vehicle tracking service in cooperation with Tracker and Sierra Wireless. The inSIM embedded SIM component was designed and developed by Wavecom, now part of Sierra Wireless, and will be used by Tracker, a stolen vehicle recovery and fleet management company. vodacom provides Tracker with its network services. more
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Vodacom Taps Andrew for Wireless Coverage In South African World Cup Stadiums
Andrew Solutions says that it has won a contract from South Africa's vodacom to deploy indoor coverage in five of the 10 South African stadiums to be used for the 2010 World Cup. Andrew's multi-operator ION-M optical distributed antenna system supports current GSM 900/1800 and UMTS frequency bands as well as next generation LTE and WiMAX networks. The systems' basic architecture involves fiber optic and coaxial cables, master and remote units, and other subsystem products that receive and transmit signals from dedicated operator base stations to customer handhelds throughout the facility. more
Related Tags: andrew-solutions, umts, andrew, indoor-coverage, three, fiber-optic, South Africa
Increased 3G uptake drives growth in South Africa
South Africa finished Q1 09 with a penetration rate of 112.0%, but this was not the highest rate in Africa, let alone mainland Africa. The former honour went to the Seychelles with 142.9%; the latter went to Libya with 118.8%. In real terms the South African market finished Q1 09 with 48.87m customers, having grown by 15.5% year on year. This was actually an improvement on the year-earlier figure of 14.4%. Annual net additions were up from 5.32m to 6.54m, with the increase in 3G uptake a key factor in this upturn. At the end of Q1 09, there were 4.7m W-CDMA users, up by 2.3m or 95.0% year on year. more
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Vodafone Q2 Revenues Rise by 9.6% to $17.7 Billion
Vodafone has reported that its Q2 revenues were up 9.3% to £10.74 billion (US$17.7 billion), including the positive impact of exchange rate movements of 8.6 percentage points and a 3.1 percentage point benefit from merger and acquisition activity, primarily attributable to the additional stake in vodacom. more
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Vodacom Q2 Revenues Up 12% on Subscriber Growth and Gateway Acquisition
South Africa based vodacom has issued a trading statement, reporting that its Q2 revenues rose 12.2% to R14.2 billion (US$1.83 billion) compared to the same quarter last year. The increase was as a result of organic revenue growth of 5.9% and Gateway contributing approximately R800 million in the quarter. more
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Nokia Losing Mobile Internet Traffic Market Share in South Africa
Mobile ad agency, mKhoj has reported that the market share of mobile internet traffic from Nokia handsets in South Africa has dropped from 46% in January to 39% last month. Samsung currently holds 33% of the market, and rose from 20% in January. The iPhone made its entrée into the market, but only contributes 0.06% of the total network traffic, making it a relatively small but growing player. more
Related Tags: mkhoj, mobile-advertising, nokia, samsung, cell-c, mtn, South Africa