CAPITEC (
$JSECPI)
A good look through with Capitec Connect more than doubling its Net Income contribution to R442m. Capitec Connect runs on CellC s wholesale network.
Full FY2026 annual results deck (year ended February 2026).
Here’s the complete picture on Capitec Connect specifically:
Scale & Active Users
1.5 million clients active in the last 3 months, up 67% year-on-year. Data usage tripled — from 13.4 to 40.5 petabytes, up 202%. ✅
Voice
Free Connect-to-Connect calling launched as a new feature. 768 million minutes used, up 150%.✅
Pricing — passing savings back
Lower Connect data prices saved clients R330 million in the year. An additional R78 million worth of free data (3 petabytes) was given to clients. ✅
Total client savings across the whole bank attributed to Connect data and Capitec Rewards was R108 million.
Revenue contribution
VAS and Connect combined generated R6.1 billion, up 38% — and this segment now constitutes 26% of total group headline earnings of R16.8bn, making it the second-largest earnings contributor after Personal Banking (41%). ✅
Net transaction income including VAS and Connect reached R20 billion for the year, up 16%.✅
New product — Connect Devices
Launched in FY26: Apple and Samsung devices orderable via the app, delivered in 3 days, payments from R181/month with zero deposit, bundled with 12 months of free 5GB data. No network locking. ✅
Strategic positioning
On the forward-looking strategy slide, “Connect and Insure” is explicitly named in the Accelerate bucket — meaning management views it as a near-term growth driver, not a peripheral product.✅
Bottom line: Connect has moved beyond proof-of-concept. 1.5 million active MVNO subscribers, tripling data volumes, a device financing offering, and now 26% of group earnings coming from the Fintech (VAS Connect) segment.
The deliberate price-to-grow strategy — sacrificing ARPU for subscriber growth — is textbook for an MVNO using the banking relationship as the acquisition channel.
With CellC
$JSECCD providing the wholesale vertical and Blue label Unlimited
$JSEBLU providing the aggregator vertical ( processing majority of CPIs prepaid and large VAS transactions - this level of Growth ( as above) should be seen as a positive !