ZIMBABWE will apply new licensing rules for fixed telephone line services following a Supreme Court ruling which broke a government monopoly of the market, the government said this week. The Supreme Court ruled that the monopoly on fixed lines held by the state firm, Posts and Telecommunications Corporation, was unconstitutional following an application by a private cellular phone company, Enhanced Communications Network (Econet).The phone company was the first to try to establish a cellular network in the country, but was stalled by the government which attempted to set up its own parallel network.
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