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Stubborn Minister ‘Harms Consumers’

Published date: 
23 Oct 2008
The Minister of Communications decision to challenge the issuing of telecoms license is harming consumers.  According to the minister, the "free-for-all" license would jeopardise her managed liberasation policy. 

Minister Fights Telecoms ‘free-for-all’

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Thu, 02/10/2008 - 09:47
Publisher: 
Business Day
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http://www.businessday.co.za/
Author: 
Lesley Stones
Abstract: 
HOPES that greater competition and lower prices would finally stir up the long-stifled telecommunications sector have been quashed unexpectedly by Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri.

The minister has chosen to challenge a judgment giving hundreds of companies the right to build their own networks instead of having to rent from Telkom, Neotel or a cellular operator. That ruling, on an application by Altech, had been hailed as a massive but belated leap towards liberalisation.

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