{"id":9028,"date":"2012-04-11T16:04:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T14:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=9028"},"modified":"2012-04-11T16:05:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T14:05:47","slug":"vodacom-business-shows-strong-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/9028\/vodacom-business-shows-strong-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom Business shows strong growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom Business is seeing excellent take-up and retention of customers, especially in the enterprise and public sector. This is word from Chris Lazarus, managing executive for Vodacom Business Services.<\/p>\n<p>Lazarus told MyBroadband BusinessTech that Vodacom Business\u2019 product suite continues to grow, aimed at meeting customer needs and requests.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lazarus, Vodacom Business\u2019 fixed business services revenue doubled in growth this year so far, and he expects around 70% growth in revenue 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a new entrant in the fixed space, Vodacom Business Services has clearly established a presence in the market, having won customers across large enterprise, public sector and SME,\u201d said Lazarus.<\/p>\n<p>Virtual Private Network products and Voice over IP services were the best performing services, said Lazarus. &#8220;The fixed business products that grew the most is VPNs (132%) and VOIP (255%).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe business has built a product suite in the 3 years since [being] founded, [which] competes with existing players across the continent. The core areas are Access, Hosted services and Managed services. Access and Managed services are the largest revenue contributors,\u201d Lazarus concluded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/6997\/vodacom-business-to-target-sme-market\/\"><strong>Vodacom Business to target SME market<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/6787\/vodacom-business-to-boost-broadband-access\/\"><strong>Vodacom Business to boost broadband access<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/6698\/telecoms-shares-growth-over-the-last-12-months\/\"><strong>Telecoms shares growth over the last 12 months<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom Business is experiencing strong growth and retention rates in the enterprise and public sectors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":9032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[2212,26,27,1712],"class_list":["post-9028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-chris-lazarus","tag-headline","tag-vodacom","tag-vodacom-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9028","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=9028"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9545,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9028\/revisions\/9545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}