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  1. Luis

    Canal+ signs agreements for Rugby World Cup and Premier Soccer League

    Canal+ signs agreements for Rugby World Cup and Premier Soccer League DStv owner Groupe Canal+ announced on Wednesday that it had signed agreements for the Rugby World Cup, Vodacom United Rugby Championship, and Premier Soccer League. Canal+ confirmed an agreement with World Rugby for the...
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  3. C

    Shoutout to Vodacom for offering South Africa's first subscription-based fibre outage service. 🎉

    A special thank you to Vodacom for keeping the great South African tradition alive: charging customers for services they can't actually use. 👏 Since moving into my property on 1 March 2026, my fibre has gone down at month-end EVERY. SINGLE. MONTH. 30th. 31st. 1st. Like clockwork. Each month I...
  4. Luis

    All the tech companies belonging to Johann Rupert in South Africa

    All the tech companies belonging to Johann Rupert in South Africa While most of billionaire Johann Rupert's $16.1 billion (R263.4 billion) net worth is attributable to his stake in luxury goods maker Richemont, he holds significant shares in local tech and telecoms firms. Rupert's contribution...
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    • johann rupert rupert tech companies in south africa technology companies vodacom
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  5. Luis

    Vodacom Tanzania rolls out PayPal support for M-Pesa customers

    Vodacom Tanzania rolls out PayPal support for M-Pesa customers Vodacom Tanzania announced a new partnership that will see its M-Pesa customers be able to transfer money between the payment platform and the platform of international payment giant PayPal. Through M-Pesa’s direct integration with...
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    • m-pesa m-pesa super app paypal safaricom vodacom vodacom tanzania
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  6. Luis

    Kenyan High Court blocks Vodacom's Safaricom deal pending later hearing

    Kenyan High Court blocks Vodacom's Safaricom deal pending later hearing The Kenyan High Court has suspended the Kenyan government's planned sale of a 15% stake in Safaricom to Vodacom Group amid concerns about constitutionality and data sovereignty. A three-judge bench ruled that the R31.47...
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    • high court of kenya safaricom shameel joosub vodacom vodacom group vodafone
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  7. Luis

    Shameel Joosub's track record as Vodacom CEO

    Shameel Joosub's track record as Vodacom CEO Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub is one of South Africa's most successful business leaders, having significantly grown the telecoms giant since taking the reins. Joosub has spent most of his professional career at Vodacom. He joined the mobile operator in...
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  8. Luis

    Vodacom paid Johann Rupert's company R12.6 billion for its stake in Maziv

    Vodacom paid Johann Rupert's company R12.6 billion for its stake in Maziv Vodacom's annual results for the year ended 31 March 2026 showed that it paid Remgro's CIVH R12.642 billion for its 30% stake in Maziv. Remgro is chaired and controlled by billionaire Johann Rupert. He founded the...
  9. Luis

    Please Call Me idea-man strikes back against Black Rock Mining

    Please Call Me idea-man strikes back against Black Rock Mining Please Call Me idea-man Nkosana Kenneth Makate launched legal action aimed at defeating the claims of Black Rock Mining and former backer Errol Elsdon to 40% of his settlement with Vodacom. This followed Black Rock’s conditional...
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    • black rock mining errol elsdon nkosana kenneth makate please call me vodacom
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    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  10. Hanno Labuschagne

    CompCom says it is committed to scrapping rules hurting businesses

    CompCom says it is committed to scrapping rules hurting businesses The Competition Commission has invited businesses and other stakeholders to identify regulations that are blocking competition, raising costs, and making it harder for firms to grow in South Africa. The review will assess rules...
  11. Luis

    Former Vodacom executive wants SIM card registrations to require biometric verification in SA

    Former Vodacom executive wants SIM card registrations to require biometric verification in SA Former Vodacom chief risk officer Johan van Graan has proposed requiring biometric verification for SIM card registrations in South Africa. According to Van Graan, the Regulation of Interception of...
  12. Hanno Labuschagne

    MTN has highest MyBroadband Insights' Network Quality Score in Q1 2026

    MTN has highest in MyBroadband Insights' Network Quality Score in Q1 2026 MyBroadband Insights has released its Q1 2026 Mobile Network Quality Report, which shows that MTN has the best mobile network in South Africa. The findings were based on more than 315,000 speed tests conducted by mobile...
  13. Hanno Labuschagne

    How MTN became South Africa's top mobile network

    How MTN became South Africa's top mobile network Former MTN South Africa CEO and current Eskom chairman, Mteto Nyati, says that strong leadership and a partnership with Huawei enabled it to become the best mobile network in South Africa. “We were battling poor network coverage, frequent...
  14. Hanno Labuschagne

    Vodacom and Standard Bank warn about AI-generated scams

    Vodacom and Standard Bank warn about AI-generated scams Two prominent South African companies, Standard Bank and Vodacom, have warned South Africans about fraudsters using fake artificial intelligence (AI) generated videos and images to scam people. According to Marius le Roux, head of fraud...
  15. F

    Vodacom Prepaid Data

    Is it just me or can you no longer purchase data of less than a gig for 30 days? I also don't see the data bundles that were for 3 months.
  16. Christiaan1127

    ZTE G5B stuck on 3g, Axxess vodacom package.

    Hi there everyone, making this post if anybody has experienced anything similar and have some tips. So I bought a Vodacom 5g package from axxess recently and it stuck on 3g, even though we have good 4g/5g reception the device refuses to connect to anything except 3g, in the router setting the...
  17. Beyond.Celsus

    I really need some help getting rid of a Vodacom contract

    So the tower in my area has been decommissioned I get little to no service on my @home internet This has been going on for over a month and it seems it will for many more months to come, because Vodacom cannot secure a new site for a new tower I've logged several service requests until 2 weeks...
  18. Hanno Labuschagne

    Vodacom's biggest achievements in 2025

    Vodacom's biggest achievements in 2025 Vodacom's major milestones in 2025 included closing a major fibre deal, becoming the country's first company to operationalise virtual electricity wheeling, and signing a partnership with Starlink. Vodacom spokesperson Byron Kennedy said the network's...
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    • byron kennedy dfa maziv mobile network operators mobile networks safaricom satellite internet virtual electricity wheeling vodacom vumatel
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  19. Hanno Labuschagne

    Vodacom acquiring control of Safaricom

    Vodacom acquiring control of Safaricom Safaricom said late Wednesday that Kenya is selling a 15% stake in the telecom operator to South Africa's Vodacom in a deal worth about $1.6 billion (R27.29 billion), as the government seeks to raise cash by offloading some state assets. Facing high...
  20. Hanno Labuschagne

    How much tax Makate will have to pay on Please Call Me settlement

    How much tax Makate will have to pay on Please Call Me settlement Please Call Me idea-man Nkosana Kenneth Makate will have to pay a substantial amount of tax on his over–R500 million settlement from Vodacom, two partners from Webber Wentzel Attorneys have said. Speaking to MyBroadband about...
  21. T

    Vodacom is gaslighting me

    So there are two sites I cannot access (as of today) when using Vodacom as my ISP: login.tailscale.com <fqdn for a server I use at work> (I'll refer to it as my.work.server in the post as an example) DNS is not a problem; I can resolve their IP addresses. Connecting to port 80 results in a...
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