Vodacom Group Limited (OTCPK:VODAF) Q4 2025 Earnings Conference Call May 19, 2025 8:00 AM ET
Company Participants
Mohamed Shameel Joosub – Chief Executive Officer
Raisibe Morathi – Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director, Vodacom Group
Conference Call Participants
Mohamed Shameel Joosub
Welcome to our annual results highlights for the year ended 31st of March 2025. As we draw the curtain on our Vision 2025 strategy, I’m immensely proud of the progress we have made over the past five years, where we merged as a purpose-led leading African operator, with clear opportunities to positively impact society and accelerate our growth. This transformation was achieved despite the challenging macroeconomic environment marked by a global health crisis, currency volatility, geopolitical tensions, inflationary pressures and protracted energy disruptions in South Africa.
Our purpose of connecting people for a better future has remained our True North through Vision 2025. It has gathered the momentum of its own as we’ve advanced our three pillars: empowering people; protecting the planet; and maintaining trust. Providing connectivity to empower people is at the core of our strategy. To close the digital divide, we are expanding our coverage for new rural sites to fiber and to space. We actively pursue underserviced areas and leverage partnerships to accelerate connectivity. For example, in the DRC, we have announced a partnership with Orange to build, own and operate 2,000 solar-powered rural base stations. Once connectivity is available, we drive access to smartphones and support data affordability.
In financial year 2025, we began to scale our prepaid handset financing initiative and launched additional lower-cost devices. Leveraging our connectivity reach, our tech for good solutions plays a vital role in addressing challenges across critical sectors, including agriculture, education, energy and health care.
Agricultural productivity is crucial to Africa’s economic future. We offer digital agricultural solutions that
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