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Vodacom launches Facebook Flex for free status updates, comments

Vodacom wants to get you updating your Facebook status again, but its new product will let you do this for free. Dubbed Facebook Flex,…

Vodacom reportedly down in north Johannesburg [Update]

Update #2, 30 November, 12pm: Vodacom has confirmed that the issue “has been resolved”. Update #1, 29 November, 5.30pm: Lexi Ball, Vodacom media relations…

‘Vodacom On Demand’ video service to debut in 2017

Vodacom has had an interesting Monday. After the company announced relatively unchanged half-year earnings, it also unveiled something a bit novel. The company today…

My Vodacom app now supports Mastercard’s Masterpass

South African telecoms giant Vodacom has announced that its customers can now “buy airtime, data bundles and SMS bundles through the My Vodacom mobile…

‘Vodacom, MTN did nothing to stop number being fraudulently ported’

A Centurion man says that Vodacom and MTN couldn’t stop his phone number from being fraudulently ported. Alasdair Cameron said that his ABSA credit…

5 interesting takeaways from Vodacom’s 2015/2016 annual earnings data

Vodacom has this week released (pdf) its financial numbers for 2015 (ending 31 March 2016), and based on the digits, it’s had a good…

Vodacom Smart 6 review: not quite six of the best

Budget Android phones have really changed the smartphone market for the better. Not only do they force manufacturers to launch cheaper but better phones,…

Africa’s ‘first’ mobile TV subscription service launched by Vodacom

TV: On Demand — a new offering for Vodacom’s 3G subscribers, was launched today with a promise to bring popular television shows and music…

Cell C responds to Facebook, YouTube jibes with full page newspaper ad

Major South African mobile operator Cell C on Sunday took the unprecedented step of issuing a full page apology in various Sunday newspapers in…

iPhone 4 in SA early September, now also includes MTN

MTN subscribers will not have to fork out large boodles of cash to get their hands on the new Apple iPhone 4 because the…

Vodacom launches multiplayer social mobile game

The Grid, Vodacom’s location-based mobile social network, has launched Legends of Echo, a multi-player social game for mobile phones that allows players to battle…

Vodacom to allow free mobile browsing via Opera Mini

Vodacom announced on Thursday that from midnight on Friday 9 April, for four consecutive weekends, Vodacom subscribers will be able to browse the web…

Rumour: 'SA #3 in line for 3G iPhone'

Ok, one thing we should expect for a while are plenty rumours over local release dates for the iPhone. I don’t think Vodacom actually…

New iPhone available in South Africa July 20

According to tech journalist and Stuff Magazine editor Toby Shapshak, Vodacom will be launching the new 3G iphone, also popularly know as the “iPhone…

Vodacom set to shake up media scene

Vodacom, best known as a cellphone service provider, is set to become one of the country’s most influential media players, trumping many big, traditional…

Vodacom’s foray into mobile advertising

Blogging from PublishOnline in Cape Town… Graunt Kruger who works for Vodacom’s mobile advertising department had the audience at the conference gasping at the…

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