Vodacom's monster growth problem

Only question I ask about the rest of Africa is how much is each of these customer's worth, cause seriously how extensively do they use these services and whats the user/$ ratio?
 
In the past few months, Vodafone has also completed the purchase of 70% of Ghana Telecom (GT) for $900m. Ironically, it was competing against Vodacom in the sale process. None of the twenty investors in an auction last year were willing to pay over $500m for the stake, which means that Vodafone overpaid for GT. What Vodafone's going to do with GT remains to be seen (for now, it's installed a foreign CEO). Ghana Telecom may end up reporting to London, another market off limits to Vodacom.
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Thats strange and worrying for Vodacom, competing with the parent network... How ill that work? If Vodacom and Vodafone want to expand in Africa shouldnt they stand together to fight against Zain and MTN th e bigger players in Africa??:confused:

Nigeria remains frustratingly elusive. Vodacom was active in the market in the early part of this decade (by managing an operator) but then exited. Alan Knott-Craig, who retired as Vodacom CEO recently, has said that one of the "toughest things" he "faced at the company was having to exit Nigeria after ... shareholders lost their appetite for investing in that country."
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Alan and his Nigeria stories, give it up or give it a go "again" just stop complaining!! The longer they waste time on it the worst it get imo.
 
check out the broadband usage over africa

South africa is loosing by far in the broadband category. MTN was really insightful taking their brand over there.

Wish south africa was contacted by Orange like Botswana mobile and not Vodafail :P Which is the most inefficient of the 4 wireless british telecom providers.

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats1.htm#africa
 
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