{"id":1048474,"date":"2026-11-11T07:21:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T01:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1048474"},"modified":"2026-11-11T07:27:30","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T01:57:30","slug":"vodacom-half-year-profit-surges-25-7-on-africa-wide-growth-safaricom-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/11\/vodacom-half-year-profit-surges-25-7-on-africa-wide-growth-safaricom-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom half-year profit surges 25.7% on Africa-wide growth, Safaricom deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG: South African mobile telecoms operator Vodacom Group reported a 25.7% jump in half-year profit on Tuesday helped by growth across its markets and a fuller contribution from Kenya&#8217;s Safaricom following the acquisition of a further 20% stake. <\/p>\n<p>The company, majority owned by Britain&#8217;s Vodafone, said its headline earnings per share jumped to 5.87 rand in the six months ended September 30 from 4.67 rand a year earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG: South African mobile telecoms operator Vodacom Group reported a 25.7% jump in half-year profit on Tuesday helped by growth across its markets and a fuller contribution from Kenya&#8217;s Safaricom following the acquisition of a further 20% stake. The company, majority owned by Britain&#8217;s Vodafone, said its headline earnings per share jumped to 5.87 rand in the six months ended September 30 from 4.67 rand a year earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1048474","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\/1048474","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048489,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048474\/revisions\/1048489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}