Mbeki blocks Telkom CEO

[antowan]

Wow... this is scary, look what I found while tidying up

World Trade Organisation

Section 5a of GATS

The Annex on Telecommunications requires WTO members (in this case South Africa)

Section 1 of the reference papers requires members to maintain " Appropriate measures for the purpose of preventing major suppliers from engaging in Anti Competitive practises "

Bet we could have very little trouble putting in the words Telkom and Competition Commission, after all a regulator cannot be in the business of dealing with Anti Competitive practises, their job is writing regulations, even if they look like something a six year old wrote on a bad day... LOL

Hey maybe we can lay a complaint with the WTO

Problem is, there are a lot of politics involved. It doesn't necesarily matter what is true, but rather what is PC or in the self interest.

I don't know if the WTO route is viable. If it were it would be damned interesting. I wonder if anybody clued on this could raise an opinion. Would you do this DragonLogos?

 

[Syndyre]

I remember reading something years ago about Mexico being forced to open up their telecoms market because of (I think) some sort of WTO ruling that was pushed for by AT&T etc.

 

[milomak]

Telkom could argue that because ICASA has the right to scrutinise and block price adjustments that there are "appropriate measures" in place.

 

[milomak]

It would seem Mbeki's blocking tactics were not so effective then. Confirmed as CEO.