ICT minister urges ‘joined at the hip’ MTN, SPTC to cease hostilities

Swaziland’s minister of ICT Winnie Magagula has publicly called for an end to the ongoing hostilities between national telecoms regulator the Swaziland Posts and Telecommunication Corporation (SPTC) and the country’s sole wireless operator MTN Swaziland. According to the Times of Swaziland, Magagula said that she hopes that the dispute – which relates to SPTC’s attempts to launch fixed-wireless services under the ‘ONE’ brand name – can be solved in the boardroom rather than the courtroom, arguing that the two entities cannot do without one another as they are ‘joined at the hip’. MTN believes that ONE contravenes the long-standing Joint Venture Agreement that forbids SPTC from competing with it, but SPTC maintains that it faces financial collapse if it abandoned the fixed-wireless initiative, on account of the substantial sum already invested in it

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OVETEL ICT minister urges ‘joined at the hip’ MTN, SPTC to cease hostilities