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Our strategy

How we will achieve our vision

A leading African TechCo with a clear system of advantage

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Strategic
ambition 1:

Africa's leading communications company

We are clear in our ambition to be the market leader in the countries where we operate across Africa. For Vodacom, this reflects the quality and depth of service we can offer in each market, rather than the size of our footprint. In this way, we concentrate our efforts and investment on meaningful innovation that helps to unlock each country’s potential for economic growth.

With a legacy of leadership in mobile, we are positioned to accelerate our system of advantage and further scale and diversify our offerings to our markets into fixed, financial and digital lifestyle propositions.

As we move forward from a traditional TelCo into a leading African TechCo, we focus on building the best infrastructure for both mobile and fixed networks, ensuring affordable smartphone penetration and access to data, and leveraging behavioural insights to provide excellent consumer and enterprise propositions. Ultimately, this will support our ambition to reduce the digital divide in the countries where we operate.

Africa's leading communications company PDF - 133KB

Strategic
ambition 2:

Diversify and differentiate with our digital ecosystem

Innovation is at the heart of our diversification beyond core connectivity as we prepare for an integrated digital future. Our financial services and digital lifestyle platforms are key differentiators for the Group as we build our fintech capabilities. To support this transition, we provide positive, unique customer experiences across our multi-product digital ecosystem, leveraging our investment in advanced analytics and behavioural loyalty.

We strive to create diverse and innovative products and solutions that drive financial and digital inclusion. Key to this ambition is our digital ecosystem, which is powered by Big Data and builds on our connectivity leadership to diversify and differentiate our offerings. In doing so, we create a deeper customer engagement with a 360-degree view where we compete on value rather than price.

Diversify and differentiate with our digital ecosystem PDF - 119KB

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Scale financial and digital services

How this supports our purpose

We develop and scale affordable and accessible digital financial solutions to promote inclusion and provide platforms for consumers and merchants to grow. An exciting evolution in our strategy to scale financial and digital services and enable the financial inclusion of these customers is the launch of the VodaPay super-app in South Africa and M-Pesa super-app across our international markets.

These platforms aim to enhance and improve the lifestyles of our customers, delivering innovative and cost-effective personal finance and business solutions in payments, savings, investments, lending and insurance. Accordingly, financial solutions that were previously difficult and cumbersome to acquire are now easily accessible – further supporting us in connecting the next 100 million African customers to ensure no one is left behind.

Scale financial and digital services PDF - 354KB

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Digital partner of choice for enterprises

How this supports our purpose

We partner with enterprises to accelerate their growth and transform their operations through digital technology. Our tailored service offerings enable large enterprises and SMEs – as well as governments and universities – to release productivity efficiencies through our flexible mobile, fixed IoT, cloud and hosting, and managed security solutions. By enhancing enterprise growth and productivity, particularly among SMEs, we support livelihoods and help society connect for a better future.

Digital partner of choice for enterprises PDF - 119KB

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World-class loyalty and customer experience

How this supports our purpose

In a connected world, customer-centricity is top of mind. Our purpose relies on maintaining and growing our customer base, ensuring they have positive interactions with Vodacom across our multi-product ecosystem. We refine and evolve our customer experience strategy based on the current and future needs of our customers, striving to deliver a personalised omni-channel digital experience, and to promote inclusion and generate loyalty to our brand.

World-class loyalty and customer experience PDF - 203KB

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Personalisation through CVM and Big Data

How this supports our purpose

As a customer-centric and purpose-led business, we develop propositions for our various customer segments based on their unique needs. Over the past five years, we have invested significantly in world-class, flexible Big Data technology to enable deeper, textured layers of understanding of our customers – including their day-to-day behaviours, motivations and aspirations. By meeting specific needs we can segment, personalise and offer nano-sized connectivity offerings and financial services to promote accessibility and inclusion.

Personalisation through CVM and Big Data PDF - 254KB

Strategic
ambition 3:

Optimised, future-ready TechCo

In a connected world, customer-centricity is top of mind. Our purpose relies on maintaining and growing our customer base, ensuring they have positive interactions with Vodacom across our multi-product ecosystem. We refine and evolve our customer experience strategy based on the current and future needs of our customers, striving to deliver a personalised omni-channel digital experience, and to promote inclusion and generate loyalty to our brand.

Optimised, future-ready TechCo PDF - 3MB

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Optimise assets through sharing

How this supports our purpose

To transform our business into a leading TechCo, we continue exploring ways to optimise our assets and create exceptional value for our stakeholders. As part of this, we look at sharing opportunities across our portfolio of assets to reduce the cost to communicate while also deepening our rural footprint.

Optimise assets through sharing PDF - 144KB

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Technology leadership in network and IT

How this supports our purpose

We invest in modern digital systems to connect our customers for a better future while also leveraging our experience in the latest technologies to drive accessibility and inclusive growth. Our Big Data capabilities drive intelligent decision-making, solutions and operations. We explore alternative energy options in our move towards greater energy efficiency while also expanding our coverage and platforms to connect more people for a better future.

Technology leadership in network and IT PDF - 300KB

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TechCo organisation and culture

How this supports our purpose

We aim to build an organisation of the future underpinned by digital innovation and agility, and develop a distinctively digital employee experience to motivate our customers to thrive. Above all, we value inclusivity and diversity, and embed a mindful organisational culture across our business to ensure every action is rooted in our purpose.

TechCo organisation and culture PDF - 219KB

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Trusted brand and reputation

How this supports our purpose

We aspire to be a purpose-led organisation, connecting for a better future by enabling a digital society, inclusive of all, with the least environmental impact. We embed these values into our culture and activities across the Group, and aim to enhance Vodacom’s reputation by demonstrating this purpose in our product development strategies and communicating it across customer experiences. Beyond our brand purpose, we recognise the need to earn and maintain trust, and are guided by our Social Contract to operate an ethical business that is responsive and transparent to a diverse group of stakeholders.

Trusted brand and reputation PDF - 1MB