On 30 June 2015, the Competition Commission released a media statement announcing that it has recommended to the Competition Tribunal, the approval of the merger of Neotel and Vodacom. The recommendation included certain conditions.
1) Vodacom may not use Neotel’s spectrum until 31 December 2017. Hopefully, the Tribunal will tie the time period to the implementation of equitable spectrum policy by ICASA.
2) Vodacom must commit to R10 billion investment in infrastructure within 5 years. T...
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