Last year, the Competition Tribunal prohibited Vodacom’s purchase of a stake in Remgro’s fibre businesses — Vumatel and Dark Fibre Africa (DFA). But then, South Africa’s minister of trade, industry and competition, Parks Tau, submitted notice to appeal. This is worrying. While Vodacom marketed the proposed transaction as an effort to “connect underserved communities”, a […]
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