Vodacom Group’s unit in the Democratic Republic of Congo will lose the right to provide 2G services this week unless it renews a disputed licence, according to a government order.
Vodacom has been been ordered to pay a politically connected fixer US$21m (R159m) this week by a court in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), but the episode could end up costing the mobile operator almost twice that amount. On the phone from Kinshasa this week, Moto Mabanga, the SA-based fixer who was
Vodacom’s bitter dispute with its partner in its subsidiary in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) hit the front pages of the newspapers in Kinshasa this…