{"id":1007700,"date":"2026-05-13T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T03:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007700"},"modified":"2026-05-13T09:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T03:36:15","slug":"vodacom-full-year-profit-surges-22-9-on-africa-wide-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/13\/vodacom-full-year-profit-surges-22-9-on-africa-wide-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom full-year profit surges 22.9% on Africa-wide growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG: South African mobile telecoms operator Vodacom Group reported a 22.9% jump in full-year profit on \u200cMonday \u2060as growth \u2060from its businesses on the continent offset a decline in its home market, where it booked a one-off \u2060cost in \u200cthe first half. <\/p>\n<p>The company, majority \u2060owned by Britain&#8217;s Vodafone, said its headline earnings per share (HEPS), a key profit measure in South Africa, jumped to 10.53 \u200crand in the full year period ended March 31, \u2060up from 8.57 rand a year earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG: South African mobile telecoms operator Vodacom Group reported a 22.9% jump in full-year profit on \u200cMonday \u2060as growth \u2060from its businesses on the continent offset a decline in its home market, where it booked a one-off \u2060cost in \u200cthe first half. The company, majority \u2060owned by Britain&#8217;s Vodafone, said its headline earnings per share (HEPS), a key profit measure in South Africa, jumped to 10.53 \u200crand in the full year period ended March 31, \u2060up from 8.57 rand a year earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007721,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007700\/revisions\/1007721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}