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Capturing corporate

Neotel celebrates its fourth anniversary in operation this year. The company has its own network and some serious backing, but is it really bringing the competition it was intended to?

01 November 2010

For South Africans, Neotel was more than just a telecommunications operator. It encapsulated the hope that we would finally be free of incumbent network Telkom’s stranglehold on the market. At the time Neotel was licensed it was mandated to tackle said monopoly with full force and transform telecoms in South Africa.

This year marks Neotel’s fourth anniversary since the company changed its name from SNO Telecommunications – the original licensee that was given the paperwork needed to provision a network, seek investment and introduce competition for parastatal Telkom. Since then, the shareholding, direction and market have changed.

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