Webafrica acquisition of Mweb gets green light from CompCom - with conditions

[Jan]

Competition Commission approves Webafrica buying Mweb — with conditions

The Competition Commission has approved Webafrica’s proposed acquisition of Mweb, with conditions.

Mweb parent Dimension Data and Webafrica confirmed the deal last week without disclosing the value of the transaction.

 

[DapperDanMan]

Condition # 1a:

WebAfrica owner must face a hearing.

Condition # 1b:

WebAfrica support system engineers must be fired.

Condition # 1c:

WebAfrica frontline support staff must wear shock collars during work shifts, and the activation buttons for those must be made available to all subscribers.

 

[Syphonx]

Condition # 1a:

WebAfrica owner must face a hearing.

Condition # 1b:

WebAfrica support system engineers must be fired.

Condition # 1c:

WebAfrica frontline support staff must wear shock collars during work shifts, and the activation buttons for those must be made available to all subscribers.

Condition # 1d:

All WebAfrica employees (including directors) must submit a support ticket every month to have their salaries paid, they must use the same support system as their customers.

 

[neoprema]

Well. there goes Mweb.

 

[PaulGherkin]

Ah, a bigger turd absorbing a very old, dry constipated turd

 

[Prof.Merlin]

Well. there goes Mweb.

Mweb went the day Rudi stepped down.

 

[Brian_G]

Been with Mweb for ages, no worries here.

 

[PaulGherkin]

Mweb went the day Rudi stepped down.

Hell I remember that... they became even worse than that scammer doctor dude and his ISP

 

[r00igev@@r]

Lekker, man, lekker!

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

Been with Mweb for ages, no worries here.

this won't age well, like people stuck on WA's whatsapp chat bot don't age well either, some die of heart attacks

 

[Brian_G]

this won't age well, like people stuck on WA's whatsapp chat bot don't age well either, some die of heart attacks

I'm still on ADSL, maybe that's why. Just don't like their snooping for extra private info, they won't give tech support if you don't comply.

 

[hj007]

What about ICASAs 30% BEE rules for ISPs?
Or is that what is meant in the line about ESOP and HDP transaction?
wondering about how it applies since so much fuss being made about Starlink needing it?

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

I'm still on ADSL

as am I, well VDSL in my case

but the point I made in jest is that MWEB is about to be acquired by WebAfrica apparently, and I wouldn't be surprised if happy MWEB customers end up being furious WebAfrica customers (directly or indirectly if they keep the brand alive)

because WebAfrica has well and truly gone to the dogs imo

 

[deweyzeph]

I can't think of 2 companies more suited for each other.

 

[Dave2020]

time to move from mweb then. Web Africa is marginally worse than mweb.. and the bar is very low.