TOBY SHAPSHAK: Play stops rain in Telkom game

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Once again the little 5G upstart data-only network is punching above its weight, proposing an alternative to create a third major telecoms player, writes shapshak.

The two sets of people who were most excited by the sudden flurry of offers for Telkom that was brought on by data-only network rain’s unsolicited, but doomed, pitch were headline writers and technology columnists.

Just as it seemed as if the ink had dried on MTN’s offer to buy Telkom, rain, well, rained on that parade. Shortly before rain withdrew, headlines abounded with puns about the way rain had “muddied Telkom’s waters” or saying “bless the rains down in Africa”...

 

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