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JOHANNESBURG: South Africa's Vodacom Group<\/a> expects new digital and financial services to generate over a quarter of group service revenue in the medium term, its chief executive said on Monday as the telecom operator reported a rise in full year operating profit.
Vodacom<\/a>, like its peer MTN Group, has been transforming its business from just providing telecom services to building a technology company that now enables its 129.6 million customers to also lend money, make payments, shop online and control appliances at home using smartphones.
It is betting on millions of Africans that still don't have access to financial services and on the continued growth of smartphone adoption and internet penetration on the continent.
Vodacom's aggressive focus on new services, which include digital and financial services, fixed broadband and internet of things (IoT) - the concept of connecting household devices to the internet - supported its normalised group service revenue growth of 4.6% to 79.9 billion rand ($4.91 billion) in the year ended March 31.
Revenue from financial services, the largest component of sales of new services, jumped 14.4% to 7.6 billion rand. That growth was driven by strong adoption of Vodacom's South African \"super-app\", VodaPay - which allows users to pay for bills and shop from various online stores in the app using their smartphones - and by continued growth of its M-Pesa mobile money service.
Since its launch last October, VodaPay has attracted 2.2 million downloads and 1.6 million registered users, Vodacom Group Chief Executive Shameel Joosub said in a statement.
IoT was up 32.1%, supported by products in agriculture and smart infrastructure. On aggregate, these new services amounted to 14.3 billion rand and contributed 17.9% to group service revenue, he added. The group is targeting a contribution of 25%-30%.
\"Each year we see a step up of the contribution of these new services and part of that will be underpinned by the launch of e-commerce through the super app and capabilities of VodaPay in all our markets,\" Joosub told a media conference.
Vodacom is finalising asset acquisitions of Vodafone<\/a> Egypt from parent company Vodafone and buying fibre assets in South Africa.
Through a consortium led by Kenyan telecoms operator Safaricom<\/a>, the parties including Vodacom plan to launch in Ethiopia by this year after a delay due to a conflict in northern Ethiopia that broke out in 2020. Vodacom partly owns Safaricom.
\"We are quite encouraged by the fact that things are getting better on the ceasefire and so on. We're busy on the rollouts at the moment and we'll launch later this year,\" Joosub said.
Egypt and Ethiopia, each with populations of over 100 million people, \"provide transformational opportunities for financial services,\" he added.
Vodacom reported a normalised operating profit of 28.23 billion rand for the year, up from 27.65 billion rand in 2021, while headline earnings per share rose by 3.4%.
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南非Vodacom的目标从数码集团收入的四分之一,在中期金融服务
Vodacom的积极关注新服务,包括数字和金融服务,固定宽带和物联网(物联网)-家用设备连接到互联网的概念——支持其正常化集团服务收入增长4.6%,至799亿兰特(49.1亿美元),今年截至3月31日。
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约翰内斯堡,南非Vodacom集团预计新的数字和金融服务产生超过四分之一的集团服务收入在中期内,其首席执行官周一表示,随着电信运营商公布全年营业利润上升。
Vodacom,如同行MTN集团已经将其业务从提供电信服务构建一个科技公司,现在也使其1.296亿年客户贷款,支付、网上购物和控制设备在国内使用智能手机。
这是赌数以百万计的非洲人仍然无法获得金融服务和智能手机应用和互联网普及率的持续增长在欧洲大陆。
Vodacom的积极关注新服务,包括数字和金融服务,固定宽带和物联网(物联网)-家用设备连接到互联网的概念——支持其正常化集团服务收入增长4.6%,至799亿兰特(49.1亿美元),今年截至3月31日。
收入来自金融服务、销售的新服务的最大组成部分,上涨14.4%,至76亿兰特。Vodacom的增长是由强劲采用南非“super-app VodaPay——允许用户从各种在线商店支付账单和车间在使用智能手机应用程序和持续增长的m - pesa移动货币服务。
自去年10月推出以来,VodaPay吸引了220万下载和160万的注册用户,Vodacom集团首席执行官Shameel Joosub在一份声明中说。
物联网是上涨了32.1%,在农业和智能基础设施支持的产品。总,这些新服务达到143亿兰特,贡献了17.9%组服务收入,他补充说。集团的目标是25%的贡献-30%。
“每年我们看到加强这些新服务的贡献,将支撑的一部分推出电子商务通过VodaPay的超级应用和功能在我们所有的市场,“Joosub在媒体发布会上说。
Vodacom敲定资产收购沃达丰(Vodafone)从母公司沃达丰埃及和南非购买纤维资产。
通过由肯尼亚电信运营商牵头的一个财团Safaricom在埃塞俄比亚,当事人包括Vodacom计划推出后,今年推迟由于2020年在埃塞俄比亚北部爆发冲突。Vodacom部分拥有Safaricom。
“我们非常鼓舞的是,事情变得更好在停火协议等等。我们很忙在糊涂事,我们会在今年晚些时候推出,”Joosub说。
埃及和埃塞俄比亚,每一个人口超过1亿人的,“为金融服务提供转型的机会,”他补充道。
Vodacom报道282.3亿兰特的正常营业利润,高于2021年的276.5亿兰特,而标题每股收益上升了3.4%。
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