Massive fight brewing between Vodacom and MTN over secret deals

Vodacom has filed court papers against the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa over spectrum pooling agreements the regulator approved between its competitors.

Since Icasa did not follow proper procedure and Vodacom believes the agreements were unlawful, it wants the approvals set aside. However, Vodacom eventually corrected this and now spends slightly more than MTN on capital expenditure every year.Vodacom hopped from one measuring company to the next to continue claiming in its advertising that it offered the better network.ruled in favour of VodacomIt was a strange situation because Vodacom had essentially convinced the ASA to overturn a ruling in its favour from years ago that blocked competitors from doing what it was now doing.

The specific frequencies being used also gave MTN a large contiguous block of bandwidth, allowing it to use the “guard bands” set aside to prevent interference between different spectrum licensees. Spectrum sharing and pooling are governed by strict regulations. Spectrum trading is prohibited in South Africa, although work is underway to change this.agreements.

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