Minister Fights Telecoms ‘free-for-all’

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Thu, 02/10/2008 - 09:47

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Business Day

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Lesley Stones

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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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