Vodacom has had a great 2019, cementing its position as the biggest mobile operator in the country.<\/p>\n
Vodacom shows no signs of slowing down next year, as it plans to launch a number of new initiatives and expand its existing offerings.<\/p>\n
Speaking to MyBroadband about its vision for 2020, Vodacom said that South Africans should watch out for big new developments.<\/p>\n
“There are a lot of exciting developments planned for the new year, which will continue to improve customer experience on the Vodacom network \u2013 stay tuned!” Vodacom said.<\/p>\n
These include developments of financial services and Vodacom’s OTT services.<\/p>\n
Vodacom said that it expects big things to come from its financial services division, especially on the back of its partnership with Mastercard earlier this year.<\/p>\n
“There is certainly a lot more to come from Vodacom Financial Services,” Vodacom told MyBroadband.<\/p>\n
“Earlier this year, together with Mastercard, we launched the VodaPay Masterpass – which enables Vodacom customers to load bank card details into a digital wallet that can be downloaded as an app on a smartphone.”<\/p>\n
The network noted that smartphones were being used for financial transactions more frequently in South Africa, and it would evolve its platform to accommodate this.<\/p>\n
“As digital wallets gain popularity, we realise the need to offer our customers solutions that will enable them to adapt to the future of commerce,” Vodacom said.<\/p>\n
“With so many of our customers now using smartphones, it makes sense to make it easier for them to pay for airtime and data, and conduct a wide range of payments at their favourite merchants, all from a single app – and we will be adding even more features to the platform in the new year.”<\/p>\n
Vodacom did not expand too much on its plans for its video, music, and gaming OTT platforms, but it did say it expects massive growth from the services.<\/p>\n
“Our video, gaming, and music offerings will evolve and grow exponentially while we are also expecting exciting things from our IoT.nxt acquisition in the year ahead,” Vodacom said.<\/p>\n
Vodacom shows no signs of slowing down next year, as it plans to launch a number of new initiatives and expand its existing offerings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":273557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51995,62204,35,41],"class_list":["post-332084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecoms","tag-51995","tag-content-services","tag-headline","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333480,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332084\/revisions\/333480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}