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  • Vodacom unit to sell operations in Nigeria, others

    South African mobile phone operator, Vodacom Group Ltd, announced on Friday its plan to sell its Business Africa unit’s Angolan operations and assets to Internet Technologies, Angola, for an undisclosed amount.

    Separately, Vodacom, which is majority owned by Vodafone Group Plc., also announced an agreement to sell the unit’s operations in Nigeria, Zambia and Cote d’Ivoire to Synergy Communications.

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    Vodacom said it would no longer service enterprise customers directly in any of the four markets but would continue to service clients through local service providers.

  • Vodacom unit to sell operations in Nigeria, others

    Cape Town- South African mobile phone operator, Vodacom Group Ltd., announced on Friday its plan to sell its Business Africa unit’s Angolan operations and assets to Internet Technologies, Angola, for an undisclosed amount.

    Separately, Vodacom, which is majority owned by Vodafone Group Plc., also announced an agreement to sell the unit’s operations in Nigeria, Zambia and Cote d’Ivoire to Synergy Communications.

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    Vodacom said it would no longer service enterprise customers directly in any of the four markets but will continue to service clients through local service providers.

  • Vodacom partners Microsoft to boost business agility

    Vodacom Business Nigeria has entered into a strategic partnership with Microsoft (through its 4Afrika initiative) and Descasio to build capacity and help improve operational efficiency among its customers using the suite of Microsoft Azure Cloud platform services.

    Microsoft Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform which will enable customers to rapidly build, deploy and manage its applications, data, runtime and more in the cloud. The platform allows users to leverage existing skills using the world’s most popular languages, tools, and frameworks in a resilient, scalable and reliable global datacenter network.

    Speaking at a breakfast meeting at the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, Victoria Island Lagos, Managing Director for Vodacom Business Nigeria, Wale Odeyemi said the vision of the firm is to be a leading digital company that empowers a connected society, adding that it has realised the benefits that strategic collaborations with key stakeholders within our ecosystem can bring to helping us realize this vision faster.

    He said:  “Vodacom actively pursues a collaborative approach that leverages the combination of core competencies of its partners to increase customer value that complement our already rich products and services in addressing our customers’ needs to optimize their operations through increased flexibility, agility and resiliency. In addition to our secure connectivity services, this collaboration with Microsoft and Descasio ensures our customers can move data and applications from their intelligent edges to Microsoft’s intelligent cloud, while accelerating their cloud adoption journeys.

    “As organisations re-invent themselves in response to ongoing digital disruptions, the appetite for cloud service adoption is also increasing as businesses seek to improve agility. Microsoft Azure addresses this need by providing diverse services under one platform, thereby creating more streamlined workflows and driving business efficiency.”

    Through the 4Afrika initiative, Microsoft aims to bring smart devices, connectivity and technology training to African entrepreneurs, youth, developers and graduates by focusing on three critical areas – World-class skills, Access and Innovation.

    Also speaking, Head, Strategic Partnerships for Microsoft 4Afrika, Soromfe Uzomah said through partnerships, Microsoft aims to empower businesses, across different verticals, with the tools they need to succeed in a technology driven world and the platforms they require to create breakthrough innovations and accelerate Africa’s digital transformation.

    “To successfully achieve  this transformation journey that enables business growth on the African continent, we need to depend not just on what we do in our own capacities but on the capabilities, functions, channels, and insights we all can tap into through partnering with others.

    “We are pleased to be a part of this initiative working in collaboration with Descasio to provide Cloud services to Vodacom customers. We look forward to working with Vodacom to help their customers optimise operations, extract insights from the data they generate and improve their decision-making capabilities to maintain a competitive advantage,” Uzomah said.

    Vodacom Business Nigeria will host services enabled by these intelligent Microsoft technologies to ensure that your business gains access to the latest software and business applications with state-of-the-art security for your company’s network, systems and applications at reduced prices, from anywhere and at any time.

  • Vodacom: collaboration key to efficiency, profitability

    Collaboration to enable large and small businesses with specific problem solving solutions will create efficiency to ultimately increase profitability, Vodacom Business Nigeria, has said.

    Speaking at this year’s Nigeria Technology Innovation and Telecoms Awards in Lagos at the weekend, where the firm won four awards, its Managing Director, Lanre Kolade, said the firm is taking the lead in the telecoms industry by providing tailor-made solutions that maximise productivity regardless of location.

    He said: “We are honored to accept the awards. Opportunities such as these remind us of the importance to go beyond just providing a service to clients. We aim to collaborate and enable large and small businesses with specific problem solving solutions that make the lives and businesses of our customers more efficient and ultimately more profitable. Our gratitude goes to these customers whose businesses are at the epicenter of the development of the Nigerian economy and look forward to exploring opportunities in future.

    “As the world progresses further into the digital age, with people and services expanding across borders, the need for a reliable end to end managed network service becomes invaluable. Our managed services provide the same high level of comfort for global businesses with reach across different territories as it does for new startup businesses with partners and stakeholders on different continents.”

    The industry celebration, organised by the Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), aims to recognise organisations and individuals at the fore front of technological advancement and innovation in the Telecoms industry.

    Vodacom Business Nigeria was recognised as Enterprise Solution Provider of the year, Internet of Things (IoT) Solutions Provider of the year for the second consecutive year and as Managed Service Provider of the year. For the company’s stellar performance in providing optimum services for its customers, both locally and internationally, it also received the coveted Telecom Business of the Year award.

    These recognitions followed a long standing track record that Vodacom Business Nigeria has developed in the market over time, delivering superior enterprise-grade Connectivity Solutions, Cloud and Hosted Services, Enterprise Voice Solution and Internet of Things to business in Nigeria.

  • Vodacom seeks digitilisation for growth

    Going full scale digital is a sustainable way of ensuring economic growth and matching population growth with infrastructural development, Vodacom Business, said yesterday in Lagos.

    Its Executive Head of Operations (Ag), Olumide Idowu, who spoke at the Information Communications Technology Telecoms (ICTEL) Expo, 2018 organised by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) at Eko Hotel, said Nigeria is one of the fastest developing countries in the world and the most populous nation in sub-Sahara Africa. With an estimated 198 million, he said  existing infrastructure is overstressed.

    He said: “Leaders around the world are committed to smart city building as they attempt to chart the course towards the development of their cities in order to meet social, economic, and environmental challenges.”

    Idowu said the country is at a pivotal moment in its technological revolution and the current lack of infrastructure provides a ready springboard to embrace Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to create a smarter and a more efficient nation. By using IoT technology, which is now commercially available, a host of intelligently connected services such as efficient healthcare in rural communities become possible a reality.

  • Vodacom seeks gender parity in ICT sector

    TO boost gender equality in the Information Communication Technology (ICT) sector, Vodacom Business Nigeria officials have visited female pupils of Grace High School, Gbagada and Lagoon Secondary School, Lekki, all in Lagos.

    The officials said the visit was part of the  firm’s celebration of the seventh International Girls in ICT Day.

    They organised the Coding and STEM quiz contests, which the pupils won.

    Vodacom Business Nigeria’s Senior Manager for Product Development, Funke Atanda said: “Vodacom is committed to accelerating the change needed to create relevant opportunities for women through the use of ICT.

    “By supporting ICT skills acquisition for young girls, bringing them into our organisations and opening their minds to new technologies that exist and continue to develop, we are able to encourage more girls to choose courses in the ICT sector. This will help increase the number of women in the ICT sector in the near future.”

    She said initiatives like the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Girls in ICT Day would go a long way towards encouraging this change, thus strengthening the sector while continuing to improve social and economic progression in the country.

    ‘’By providing donations, training and support to ICT-driven programmes, Vodacom Business Nigeria is accelerating the removal of barriers for girls and women in the ICT industry.

    The official said the contest formed part of a global campaign that seeks to encourage young girls to consider ICT as a profession and contribute their quota to the growth of the industry in Nigeria and their self-development.

    The International Girls’ in ICT Day is an initiative of the International ITU to create a global environment that will empower and encourage girls and young women to consider careers in the ICT field.

    With some school girls opting to study technology-related disciplines in decline in most countries worldwide, ITU has committed itself towards championing young women  for a career in tech.

  • Vodacom, Intelsat to expand internet connectivity

    Vodacom Business Nigeria and Intelsat have announced an agreement to expand its enterprise broadband connectivity in Nigeria. This is to further provide improved satellite services to its local enterprise customers.

    The strategic agreement was signed at the Satellite 2018, which took place in Washington D.C, United States (U.S). This agreement  makes Vodacom Business Nigeria the first telecommunications provider in Nigeria to lease capacity on the Intelsat 35e Satellite.

    As satellite coverage increases globally, enterprises businesses are no longer limited to operating from just one location because of the high speed broadband requirements for their business operation. Through this agreement with Intelsat S.A, which is the operator of the world’s first globalised network and leader in integrated satellite solutions, Vodacom Business Nigeria will deploy the Intelsat EPICNG satellite services, which is a next generation of satellite technology; to its enterprise customers to enable them to operate from anywhere they want throughout Nigeria.

    Intelsat’s Regional Vice President, Africa Sales, Brian Jakins, said: “Intelsat EpicNG enables higher data rate applications and smaller terminals that give enterprises the avenue to expand into new regions and take advantage of business opportunities regardless of where they occur.

    He further noted that with the improved performance delivered by Intelsat EpicNG, Vodacom Business Nigeria’s customers will use the satellite services on Intelsat 35e to deliver fast, high quality and resilient broadband connectivity to the banking, oil and gas, and enterprise sectors across West Africa for an improved quality of service.

    On the agreement, Vodacom Business Nigeria Managing Director, Lanre Kolade, said: “With plans in top gear to deploy the Intelsat EPICNG satellite services, this will enable Vodacom Business Nigeria to deliver an efficient, quick, reliable, secure broadband solution with a low monthly recurring cost within the shortest time to our Enterprise customers.”

    Kolade said the deal would further allow Vodacom to connect businesses located where there is no access to terrestrial and mobile networks, therefore bringing them closer to their employees, customers as well as other businesses, to help empower them to remain operational and profitable.

    He said: “As a leading provider of corporate connectivity and telecommunications solutions, Vodacom always strives to stay up-to-date with the technological needs and requirements of the changing environment hence the reason for this agreement.”

  • Vodacom seeks early exposure of kids to ICT

    Vodacom Business Nigeria has stressed the need for kids  to be exposed early in life to  information communication technology (ICT).

    The firm which organised robotics training for 36 pupils of S.S. Peter & Paul Nursery and Primary School, Ikate, Elegushi, Lagos, said new trends such as Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are fast gaining global traction.

    Speaking on the occasion, its Senior Manager, Product Portfolio, Abu Etu, said: “As part of our commitment to empower the next generation in Nigeria through ICT, Vodacom believes that it is important to promote training for pupils at the primary level of education. This will prepare them from the early stages of their lives for the post-digital age, which will demand technical knowledge and skills.”

    Also speaking, the General Manager, Loving Gaze, Barbara Pepoli, said: “We are excited that our pupils had the opportunity to learn new things beyond the walls of the classroom.”

    Getting children interested in technology is very important for our school and this field trip is a great way to make technology come to life for our pupils.”

     

  • Vodacom: technology’ll drive efficiency, productivity

    The Managing Director, Vodacom Business Nigeria, Lanre Kolade, has advised entrepreneurs in Nigeria to adopt new technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data Analytics currently disrupting the business world, to drive productivity, efficiency and remain competitive.

    Kolade who spoke at the Business Day CEO Forum Nigeria 2017, an annual thought leadership initiative in collaboration with McKinsey & Co, he said: “Technology such as IoT enables growth across business sectors. Today, many organisations are using this technology to cut costs, reduce risk, increase revenue and efficiency.”

    According to him African businesses are gradually adopting IoT, with Nigeria being one of the leading markets on the continent. This adoption is driven by the increasing availability of affordable smart devices, coupled with the need for enterprises to deliver shareholder value. According to the Vodafone’s Global IoT barometer report 2017, the adoption of IoT has grown significantly from 12 per cent in 2013 to 29 per cent in 2017 and 49 per cent of these adopters use IoT in conjunction with analytics to improve business decision-making.

    In Africa, disruptive technologies such as IoT holds significant potential and opportunities are found in different sectors ranging from finance, insurance to manufacturing and agriculture, including the education sector. Organisations of all sizes now use IoT to optimise processes, automate production and monitor the supply chain.

    Kolade said: “We can use technology to disrupt education, with broadband penetration, digitisation becomes possible and education contents will be more accessible to all in Nigeria.”

    Vodacom is using technology to address challenges in, education, healthcare and agriculture in Africa. Vodacom recently deployed IoT solution for education and healthcare in Kaduna State using a mobile school management solution which provides real-time visibility of all administrative activities at over 4000 schools. The healthcare solution monitors stock level and distribution of essential medicines in over 250 medicine dispensary facilities in the state.

  • Vodacom wins four awards

    Vodacom Business Nigeria has emerged the Internet of Things (IoT) Provider of the Year, the Telecom Business of the year and the Enterprise Service Provider of the Year at the 2017 Nigeria Technology Innovation and Telecoms Awards (NTIT Award).

    Its Managing Director, Mr. Lanre Kolade, also won the Industry Personality of the year award.

    Speaking after receiving the awards, Kolade said: “We are honoured to receive these awards. This endorses our commitment to delivering world-class total communications solutions to businesses in Nigeria. Our gratitude goes to our customers whose businesses are driving the Nigerian economy and the men and women at Vodacom who work round the clock to support these businesses.” Vodacom Business Nigeria is taking the lead in the market with IoT, using this technology to empower healthcare delivery, education management and enterprises to be more efficient.  IoT drives digital transformation, helping businesses to remain relevant in today’s digital world.

    “The IoT is playing an increasing role as an enabler of economic development. Governments across Africa continue to adopt this technology to leapfrog developmental stages, improve service delivery, supporting healthy, well-educated and economically active citizens,” he added.

    NTIT Awards is an industry celebration organised by the Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON). It is aimed at recognising organisations and individuals at the forefront of technology and innovation in the industry.

    These accolades follow long standing track records that Vodacom Business Nigeria has developed in the market over time, delivering enterprise-grade connectivity solutions, cloud and hosted services, enterprise voice solution and IoT to business in Nigeria.