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    Home»News»Six groups bid for Cell C: report

    Six groups bid for Cell C: report

    News By Duncan McLeod26 August 2015
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    Cell C parent Oger Telecom has received offers to buy its controlling 75% stake in the South African mobile telecommunications operator from six groups, it was reported on Wednesday.

    Business Day quoted Oger Telecom chief legal officer and deputy CEO Mazen Abou Chakra as saying that “six groups approached us with an interest in acquiring our stake in Cell C”.

    The newspaper said Chakra told it that Oger has made no decision about whether to sell its interest in the debt-laden operator, but said it was happy with Cell C’s performance over the past 12-18 months and remained “fully committed” to the business.

    Chakra’s comments follow a Reuters report in March, which quoted Oger chairman Mohammed Hariri as saying that the company will sell its stake if the right offer is forthcoming.

    “All options are open. If we get a good price, we will sell,” the news wire quoted him as saying.

    Hariri told Reuters that Oger had hired Goldman Sachs to advise it on a possible sale. The decision to hire the firm was triggered by the decision by communications regulator Icasa to amend termination rate regulations that previously had been strongly in favour of smaller network operators, including Cell C. Termination rates are the fees operators charge one another to carry calls between their networks.

    More recently, Reuters quoted Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko as saying that at the right price the company would consider an offer to buy Cell C. He reportedly described an acquisition of the mobile operator as an “interesting proposition”.

    “I’d like to do something with them. At the right price, I’m a buyer,” he is reported to have said. He also said Telkom has a strong balance sheet, giving it the “flexibility to pursue … options”.

    The recent decision by the Competition Commission to support a proposed mobile infrastructure-sharing deal between Telkom and MTN could add impetus to a Telkom approach to Oger Telecom.

    Cell C, which recently secured new debt financing, is fighting to become a bigger player in the local telecommunications market, cutting prices and aggressively attempting to poach both prepaid and contract users from its bigger rivals. It has also announced plans to build a 4G/LTE network.

    Telkom’s mobile arm, a late fourth entrant in the mobile market, has struggled to gain traction and has incurred losses running into billions of rand. However, the unit is on the mend.  — © 2015 NewsCentral Media

    Cell C Competition Commission Goldman Sachs Mazen Abou Chakra Mohammed Hariri MTN Oger Telecom Sipho Maseko Telkom
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