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Making it rain

Talking telecoms with the industry’s new kid on the block.

11 January 2021

There is so much growth and opportunity within the local telecoms space and the team from Rain is poised to make the most of it. As I write this story, Rain is in the news. Headlines detail Telkom’s calls to the Competition Tribunal to investigate the spectrum arrangements between Vodacom and Rain because it believes that the agreement between the two companies constitutes a merger.

“Telkom has a history of complaining about everyone to the regulators,” says Gustav Schoeman, Rain CTO and one of the company’s co-founders. The abovementioned claim is nothing but a rehash of a complaint made by Telkom in 2017, which objected to Rain’s purchase of WBS through Multisource, he adds. “These assumptions were shown to be incorrect after the first investigation. We believe it’s simply Telkom’s intent to be a spoiler and delay the upcoming spectrum auction.”

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