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Our strategy

How we will achieve our vision

A leading African TechCo with a clear system of advantage

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Strategic
ambition 1:

Africa's leading communications company

Our leadership in mobile has positioned us well to scale and diversify our market offerings into fixed, financial and digital lifestyle propositions. As we advance our transition from a TelCo to a leading African TechCo, we aim to build the best infrastructure for both mobile and fixed networks, facilitate affordable smartphone penetration and foster regulatory environments that promote digitalisation and inclusion for all in the countries where we operate.

Africa's leading communications company PDF - 168KB

Strategic
ambition 2:

Diversify and differentiate with our digital ecosystem

We endeavour to create diverse and innovative products and solutions that drive financial and digital inclusion. This supports our ambition of creating a digital ecosystem powered by Big Data and builds on our connectivity leadership. We are committed to creating deeper customer engagement opportunities supported by a 360-degree customer view, empowering us to maintain market leadership during intensified competition across all growth engines.

Diversify and differentiate with our digital ecosystem PDF - 246KB

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Scale financial and digital services

Supporting our purpose

Our affordable and accessible financial solutions promote inclusion and create opportunities for consumers and merchants to grow. In addition to financial inclusion, we promote digital literacy and digital community development through our various educational and informative platform offerings. Our super-apps combine our strengths in financial and digital services to provide a rich ecosystem for our customers. As we bring together financial, e-Commerce and lifestyle services, we allow our merchants to expand their addressable markets.

Scale financial and digital services PDF - 145KB

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Digital partner of choice for enterprises

Supporting our purpose

We partner with enterprises through our digital technology and financial services solutions to drive growth and transform their operations. Our tailored proposition enables large enterprises, SMEs, governments and universities to unlock efficiencies through our flexible mobile, fixed, IoT, cloud and hosting, and managed security solutions. By enhancing enterprise productivity and growth, particularly among SMEs, we support livelihoods and help society connect for a better future.

Digital partner of choice for enterprises PDF - 166KB

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World-class loyalty and customer experience

Supporting our purpose

Maintaining and growing our customer base is critical to our purpose. We continuously evolve and enhance our customer experience strategy, adapting to current and future customer needs to provide personalised omnichannel digital experiences that promote inclusion and generate brand loyalty.

World-class loyalty and customer experience PDF - 166KB

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Personalisation through CVM and Big Data

Supporting our purpose

As a customer-centric and purpose-led business, we tailor our propositions to the unique needs of our customer segments. In recent years, we have invested heavily in world-class, flexible Big Data technology to gain insights into our customers' day-to-day behaviours, and aspirations. We can promote accessibility and inclusion by meeting specific needs through segmentation and personalisation and by offering nano-sized connectivity and financial services propositions.

Personalisation through CVM and Big Data PDF - 166KB

Strategic
ambition 3:

Optimised, future-ready TechCo

We utilise the strength of our connectivity reach and digital ecosystem to promote financial inclusion, enhance our customer value propositions and build trust with our stakeholders. We invest in network technology and digital systems that improve efficiency and expand connectivity in network and IT. As part of our focus on optimising our ROCE, we leverage partnerships and sharing models to develop innovative and smart technology platforms and connectivity solutions that deliver customer value. Embedding our agile employee culture – the Spirit of Vodacom – across the organisation further supports the skills and capabilities we need on our journey to becoming a trusted, leading African TechCo.

Optimised, future-ready TechCo PDF - 246KB

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Optimise assets through sharing

Supporting our purpose

We continuously explore ways to optimise our assets and create exceptional value for our stakeholders as we become a leading TechCo. Asset-sharing opportunities across our portfolio reduce the cost of communicating while expanding our rural footprint.

Optimise assets through sharing PDF - 104KB

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Technology leadership in network and IT

Supporting our purpose

We invest in state-of-the-art digital systems to enhance customer connectivity and leverage our experience in the latest technologies to drive accessibility and inclusive growth. Our use of Big Data capabilities enables intelligent decisionmaking across our operations. We explore alternative energy options in our pursuit of greater energy efficiency and expand our coverage and platforms to connect more people for a better future.

Technology leadership in network and IT PDF - 104KB

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TechCo organisation and culture

Supporting our purpose

We continuously strive to build a future-fit organisation driven by digital innovation and agility, fostering a unique digital employee experience to motivate our customers to thrive. Above all, we prioritise inclusivity and diversity and a mindful organisational culture to ensure alignment with our purpose in everything we do.

TechCo organisation and culture PDF - 207KB

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Trusted brand and reputation

Supporting our purpose

We are a purpose-led organisation, connecting for a better future by enabling a digitally inclusive society, with a low environmental impact. We embed these values into our culture and actions, enhancing our reputation by integrating our purpose into product offerings and customer experience. We prioritise earning and maintaining trust through ethical conduct guided by our Social Contract, ensuring responsiveness and transparency to diverse stakeholders.

Trusted brand and reputation PDF - 207KB