{"id":574062,"date":"2024-12-03T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=574062"},"modified":"2024-12-03T13:48:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T11:48:04","slug":"whats-next-shenge-buthelezi-on-vodacom-signing-mr-price-mobile-as-its-first-mvno-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/574062-whats-next-shenge-buthelezi-on-vodacom-signing-mr-price-mobile-as-its-first-mvno-partner.html","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Next \u2014 Shenge Buthelezi on Vodacom signing Mr Price Mobile as its first MVNO partner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this What\u2019s Next with Aki Anastasiou interview, Shenge Buthelezi discusses Vodacom\u2019s extensive MVNO offerings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buthelezi is the Managing Executive of Wholesale and Carrier Services at Vodacom South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has worked at Vodacom for over 16 years and has held several important roles in the company\u2019s Wholesale and Carrier Services business unit during this time \u2014 including Executive Head, Programme Manager, and Account Manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his current role, Buthelezi leads this business unit and is focused on fostering, maintaining, and growing strategic partnerships that increase revenue and profitability for Vodacom South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buthelezi holds an MBA from Wits Business School and a post-graduate diploma in project management from Cranefield College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The interview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In this What\u2019s Next interview, Buthelezi discusses what makes Vodacom Business South Africa\u2019s most trusted enterprise telecommunications provider, in South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He then focuses on the company\u2019s MVNO offering and the signing of its first MVNO partner, Mr Price Mobile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buthelezi explains why Vodacom has entered the MVNO industry and why the network provider is a great partner for companies that want to launch their own MVNO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He highlights that Vodacom has built a mobile virtual network enablement platform to support its MVNO offering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buthelezi concludes the interview by discussing the many exciting opportunities Vodacom\u2019s wholesale business is working on moving forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the full interview with Shenge Buthelezi below.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mWUG1yQXhLw?si=sV-cuvjwcNySpold\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buthelezi discusses the value Vodacom brings to South Africa\u2019s competitive MVNO industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":574065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[97662,5076,98085,3948],"class_list":["post-574062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wireless","tag-most-trusted-telecommunication-provider","tag-mvno","tag-shenge-buthelezi","tag-vodacom-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574062"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574062"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574071,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574062\/revisions\/574071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}