{"id":1024009,"date":"2026-07-28T07:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T02:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024009"},"modified":"2026-07-28T07:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T02:23:10","slug":"south-africas-vodacom-lifts-medium-term-targets-after-safaricom-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/28\/south-africas-vodacom-lifts-medium-term-targets-after-safaricom-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s Vodacom lifts medium-term targets after Safaricom deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG: South Africa&#8217;s mobile telecoms operator Vodacom Group upgraded its medium-term growth targets on Monday after completing its acquisition of a controlling stake in Kenya&#8217;s Safaricom , while reducing its dividend payout ratio. <\/p>\n<p>The Africa-focused company raised the target as \u200cit reported a \u20606.3% \u2060rise in first-quarter group service revenue to 34.3 billion rand ($2.1 billion), driven by strong growth in Egypt and the rest of its business on the continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG: South Africa&#8217;s mobile telecoms operator Vodacom Group upgraded its medium-term growth targets on Monday after completing its acquisition of a controlling stake in Kenya&#8217;s Safaricom , while reducing its dividend payout ratio. The Africa-focused company raised the target as \u200cit reported a \u20606.3% \u2060rise in first-quarter group service revenue to 34.3 billion rand ($2.1 billion), driven by strong growth in Egypt and the rest of its business on the continent.<\/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-1024009","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\/1024009","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=1024009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024021,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024009\/revisions\/1024021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}