The Competition Tribunal is this week set to hear arguments related to the settlement agreement reached between the Competition Commission and Telkom in June.
The agreement with the commission is subject to approval by the tribunal, which will hear the matter on Thursday and Friday this
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Telkom has agreed to pay a R200m penalty, to functionally separate its retail and wholesale divisions, to adhere to pricing commitments for the next five years, and to allow its future conduct to be monitored. This all forms part of a settlement with the Competition Commission over anticompetitive abuses
Naspers-controlled pay-TV operator MultiChoice, which owns DStv and SuperSport, may soon face a probe by South Africa’s competition authorities after rival On Digital Media (ODM), which owns TopTV, accused it of anticompetitive abuses. TechCentral can reveal exclusively
The competition appeal court has agreed to allow Telkom and the Competition Commission to withdraw their separate appeals in the long-running case involving anticompetitive abuses by the telecommunications operator between 1999 and 2004
Telkom and the Competition Commission have dropped their separate applications to the competition appeal court related to last year’s decision by the Competition Tribunal to hand down a R449m fine on the telecommunications operator for past anticompetitive abuses. Competition Commission
The Competition Commission has entered into talks with Telkom with a view potentially to resolving a second broad-ranging investigation against the fixed-line operator outside of the process of formal competition hearings. The move comes just months after the Competition Tribunal
Migration from fixed-line services to mobile alternatives continues to hurt Telkom, with the number of fixed lines in service plummeting to less than 3,9m at the end of September from 4,1m a year ago. The operator’s interim results for the six
Telkom needs to find a “worthy successor” to CEO Nombulelo Moholi, trade union Solidarity said on Monday. “Moholi is one of several Telkom CEOs who have resigned over the past year and her resignation will contribute to further instability in the company,” spokesman
Computicket has been accused of using its market power to bully a developmental theatre company that works with schools. The dispute between theatre company Minimax and the SA State Theatre in Pretoria is about the exclusive contract Computicket signed with the latter in August 2011. By forcing
Telkom has agreed to allow rival Internet service providers to participate in trials to test its speedier broadband fixed-line network. This followed criticism from the Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa), an industry body, in which it suggested that the operator’s decision to restrict the tests to its own