ALSO READ: White elephant: Sh14b surveillance system that can barely store footageThe company, majority owned by Britain’s Vodafone, added 7 million customers, including 4.5 million in South Africa, in the year ended March 31. It has now more than 103 million customers, which includes Kenyan firm Safaricom’s 1.4 million users. Vodacom gained a 35 percent stake in Kenya’s Safaricom as Vodafone consolidated two of its African interests last May. Vodacom declared a final dividend of 425 cents per share, lower than 435 cents given out last year. Revenue climbed to 86.37 billion rand from 81.28 billion rand in the previous year, while group service revenue rose 3.4 percent to 70.63 billion rand ($5.76 billion).

Source: Standard Digital May 14, 2018 06:04 UTC