{"id":396877,"date":"2020-05-11T16:04:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T14:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=396877"},"modified":"2020-05-11T16:04:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T14:04:41","slug":"convergence-partners-acquires-vodacom-business-africas-operations-in-4-regions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/enterprise\/396877\/convergence-partners-acquires-vodacom-business-africas-operations-in-4-regions\/","title":{"rendered":"Convergence Partners acquires Vodacom Business Africa\u2019s operations in 4 regions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Convergence Partners says its pan-African digital service provider platform, inq. Holdings &#8211; formerly Synergy Communications &#8211; has completed the acquisition of Vodacom Business Africa\u2019s operations in Nigeria, Zambia and Cote d\u2019Ivoire with a further planned acquisition in Cameroon pending regulatory approvals.<\/p>\n<p>The transaction grows inq.\u2019s regional footprint as an enterprise solutions provider to 13 cities in 7 countries across Africa including its existing operations in Botswana, Malawi and Mozambique.<\/p>\n<p>Under the inq. banner the company will embark on the next phase of building a unified pan-African cloud and digital service provider.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This represents a further milestone in our journey to create a group serving the enterprise community across sub-Saharan Africa with a uniform high quality of service and consistent product offering,&#8221; said Brandon Doyle, chief executive officer of Convergence Partners.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Through inq., we are able to deliver intelligent connectivity through seamless delivery of cloud and digital services and digital technologies to our clients. As the global thinking is going through a reset because of Covid-19, inq. is ready to provide business continuity to our global and continental and local clients,&#8221; said Andile Ngcaba, chairman of Convergence Partners and executive chair of inq.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/396517\/vodacom-reports-customer-and-revenue-boost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vodacom reports customer and revenue boost<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convergence Partners says its pan-African digital service provider platform, inq. Holdings &#8211; formerly Synergy Communications &#8211; has completed the acquisition of Vodacom Business Africa\u2019s operations in Nigeria, Zambia and Cote d\u2019Ivoire with a further planned acquisition in Cameroon pending regulatory approvals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":390529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13700],"tags":[1621,26,27],"class_list":["post-396877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enterprise","tag-convergence-partners","tag-headline","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396889,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396877\/revisions\/396889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}