Telkom might fall flat on its face

ADSL South Africa (Broadband South Africa), 28 April 2008

Telkom might fall flat on its face when it gets a R3.7bn fine for anti-competitive behaviour. This will be the case if the telecoms giant loses its challenge in the Pretoria High Court to proof that the Competition Commission had overstep boundaries when they referred a certain case to the Competition Tribunal.

To make a long story short and not to go into all the details here, Telkom is not happy about the fact that value-added network services (Vans) lodged a complaint about Telkom’s behaviour at the Competition Commission, and that the Competition Commission, referred the case to the Competition Tribunal. Telkom feels the Competition Commission had no authority to do so. ADSL South Africa (Broadband South Africa) believes Telkom is trying to evade the hammer of justice coming down on them by concentrating on technicalities instead of facing the charges brought against them for anti-competitive behaviour in a manner that commands respect for the people of South Africa. We all know that Telkom has screwed up big time in the past and even recently when it comes to anti-competitive behaviour. This is why the direction they are taking in their defence can be seen as defecation on everything we hold dear in this country. They are instead trying to hide behind ICASA which is clearly not capable of taking them head on and make sure they pay for the commercial crimes they have committed against the people of South Africa.

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