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Vodacom is a leading and purpose-led African connectivity, digital and financial services company and we are celebrating our 30th anniversary.

The Group, including Safaricom, serves over 200 million customers spanning across the consumer and enterprise segments. From our roots in South Africa, we have grown our business to include operations in the DRC, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, and Tanzania. Our mobile networks cover a total population of over 500 million people. Vodacom is majority-owned by Vodafone (65.1% holding), one of the world’s largest communications companies by revenue.

Why

We connect for a better future

Digital society

We believe in a connected digital society that connects people, communities and things to the internet like never before.


Connecting people and things to the internet

Inclusion for all

We believe that the opportunities and promise of a better digital future should be accessible to the many, not the fortunate few.

Leaving no one behind

Planet

We believe that urgent and sustained action is required to address climate change and that business success should not come at a cost to the environment.  

Reducing our environmental impact

Where and how

Where

Our vision

  • To be the leading technology communications company in Africa;
  • Connecting for a better future; and
  • One of the world’s greatest places to work.
How

The spirit of Vodacom

  • Earn customer loyalty;
  • Create the future;
  • Experiment – learn fast; and
  • Get it done together.

How we will achieve our vision

A leading African TechCo with a clear system of advantage

Strategic
ambition 1:

Africa's leading communications company

We are clear in our ambition to be the market leader in the countries where we operate across Africa. For Vodacom, this reflects the quality and depth of service we can offer in each market, rather than the size of our footprint. In this way, we concentrate our efforts and investment on meaningful innovation that helps to unlock each country’s potential for economic growth.

With a legacy of leadership in mobile, we are positioned to accelerate our system of advantage and further scale and diversify our offerings to our markets into fixed, financial and digital lifestyle propositions.

As we move forward from a traditional TelCo into a leading African TechCo, we focus on building the best infrastructure for both mobile and fixed networks, ensuring affordable smartphone penetration and access to data, and leveraging behavioural insights to provide excellent consumer and enterprise propositions. Ultimately, this will support our ambition to reduce the digital divide in the countries where we operate.

Africa's leading communications company PDF - 133KB

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Healthy markets

How this supports our purpose

With our expansion into Ethiopia and proposed acquisition of a controlling stake in Vodafone Egypt, we are set to extend our market leadership position to cover more than 500 million people across the African continent. Our enhanced footprint provides us with a unique platform to scale our strategy while we also selectively partner with global tech to connect people for a better future.

Footprint strengthened PDF - 130KB

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Secure leadership in mobile and fixed

How this supports our purpose

As we invest to deepen the quality and penetration of mobile and fixed connectivity services across our footprint, we unlock the potential of a digital society and inclusion for all. This investment is complemented by data-led personalised pricing options and innovative smartphone financing solutions that support affordability. In this way, by accelerating fibre reach in South Africa with our pending CIVH deal, we will foster economic development and help bridge South Africa’s digital divide.

Secure leadership in mobile and fixed PDF - 667KB

Strategic
ambition 2:

Diversify and differentiate with our digital ecosystem

Innovation is at the heart of our diversification beyond core connectivity as we prepare for an integrated digital future. Our financial services and digital lifestyle platforms are key differentiators for the Group as we build our fintech capabilities. To support this transition, we provide positive, unique customer experiences across our multi-product digital ecosystem, leveraging our investment in advanced analytics and behavioural loyalty.

We strive to create diverse and innovative products and solutions that drive financial and digital inclusion. Key to this ambition is our digital ecosystem, which is powered by Big Data and builds on our connectivity leadership to diversify and differentiate our offerings. In doing so, we create a deeper customer engagement with a 360-degree view where we compete on value rather than price.

Diversify and differentiate with our digital ecosystem PDF - 119KB

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Scale financial and digital services

How this supports our purpose

We develop and scale affordable and accessible digital financial solutions to promote inclusion and provide platforms for consumers and merchants to grow. An exciting evolution in our strategy to scale financial and digital services and enable the financial inclusion of these customers is the launch of the VodaPay super-app in South Africa and M-Pesa super-app across our international markets.

These platforms aim to enhance and improve the lifestyles of our customers, delivering innovative and cost-effective personal finance and business solutions in payments, savings, investments, lending and insurance. Accordingly, financial solutions that were previously difficult and cumbersome to acquire are now easily accessible – further supporting us in connecting the next 100 million African customers to ensure no one is left behind.

Scale financial and digital services PDF - 354KB

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Digital partner of choice for enterprises

How this supports our purpose

We partner with enterprises to accelerate their growth and transform their operations through digital technology. Our tailored service offerings enable large enterprises and SMEs – as well as governments and universities – to release productivity efficiencies through our flexible mobile, fixed IoT, cloud and hosting, and managed security solutions. By enhancing enterprise growth and productivity, particularly among SMEs, we support livelihoods and help society connect for a better future.

Digital partner of choice for enterprises PDF - 119KB

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World-class loyalty and customer experience

How this supports our purpose

In a connected world, customer-centricity is top of mind. Our purpose relies on maintaining and growing our customer base, ensuring they have positive interactions with Vodacom across our multi-product ecosystem. We refine and evolve our customer experience strategy based on the current and future needs of our customers, striving to deliver a personalised omni-channel digital experience, and to promote inclusion and generate loyalty to our brand.

World-class loyalty and customer experience PDF - 203KB

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Personalisation through CVM and Big Data

How this supports our purpose

As a customer-centric and purpose-led business, we develop propositions for our various customer segments based on their unique needs. Over the past five years, we have invested significantly in world-class, flexible Big Data technology to enable deeper, textured layers of understanding of our customers – including their day-to-day behaviours, motivations and aspirations. By meeting specific needs we can segment, personalise and offer nano-sized connectivity offerings and financial services to promote accessibility and inclusion.

Personalisation through CVM and Big Data PDF - 254KB

Strategic
ambition 3:

Optimised, future-ready TechCo

In a connected world, customer-centricity is top of mind. Our purpose relies on maintaining and growing our customer base, ensuring they have positive interactions with Vodacom across our multi-product ecosystem. We refine and evolve our customer experience strategy based on the current and future needs of our customers, striving to deliver a personalised omni-channel digital experience, and to promote inclusion and generate loyalty to our brand.

Optimised, future-ready TechCo PDF - 3MB

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Optimise assets through sharing

How this supports our purpose

To transform our business into a leading TechCo, we continue exploring ways to optimise our assets and create exceptional value for our stakeholders. As part of this, we look at sharing opportunities across our portfolio of assets to reduce the cost to communicate while also deepening our rural footprint.

Optimise assets through sharing PDF - 144KB

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Technology leadership in network and IT

How this supports our purpose

We invest in modern digital systems to connect our customers for a better future while also leveraging our experience in the latest technologies to drive accessibility and inclusive growth. Our Big Data capabilities drive intelligent decision-making, solutions and operations. We explore alternative energy options in our move towards greater energy efficiency while also expanding our coverage and platforms to connect more people for a better future.

Technology leadership in network and IT PDF - 300KB

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TechCo organisation and culture

How this supports our purpose

We aim to build an organisation of the future underpinned by digital innovation and agility, and develop a distinctively digital employee experience to motivate our customers to thrive. Above all, we value inclusivity and diversity, and embed a mindful organisational culture across our business to ensure every action is rooted in our purpose.

TechCo organisation and culture PDF - 219KB

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Trusted brand and reputation

How this supports our purpose

We aspire to be a purpose-led organisation, connecting for a better future by enabling a digital society, inclusive of all, with the least environmental impact. We embed these values into our culture and activities across the Group, and aim to enhance Vodacom’s reputation by demonstrating this purpose in our product development strategies and communicating it across customer experiences. Beyond our brand purpose, we recognise the need to earn and maintain trust, and are guided by our Social Contract to operate an ethical business that is responsive and transparent to a diverse group of stakeholders.

Trusted brand and reputation PDF - 1MB