Vodafone forms partnership in sub-Saharan Africa

18th Nov 2014 11:34

Vodafone has formed a strategic framework agreement with Afrimax Group to explore opportunities for partner market agreements across sub-Saharan Africa.Both Vodafone and telecommunications operator Afrimax, which is headquartered in the Netherlands, will provide voice and data products and services using the 'Vodafone Uganda' brand.Multinational corporate customers of the FTSE 100 company will benefit from the addition of Uganda to their existing contracts for international managed services, Vodafone added.The group's partner markets chief executive, Stefano Gastaut, said: "Uganda is an attractive market and we are delighted to welcome Afrimax to our successful partner markets community, which already operates in more than fifty countries."We look forward to exploring the potential for further partner market agreements in sub-Saharan Africa with Afrimax, under our framework cooperation agreement."Vodafone already has opertions in South Africa, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho and Mozambique.