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Sport the big loser as Vodacom cuts costs

21 May 2010

Did you catch that game recently between the Vodacom Cheetahs and the Vodacom Bulls at Vodacom Park in the Vodacom Super 14? Perhaps not surprisingly, Vodacom, South Africa's largest cellphone group, has decided that it sponsors perhaps a little bit too much sport.

CEO Pieter Uys has announced that the group will cut its investment in events like the Super 14 as it seeks to reduce costs as margin pressures, particularly from the upcoming sharp reductions in wholesale mobile call termination rates, begin to bite into its SA business.

And rugby and soccer look set to be the big losers.

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