ISPA ADSL complaint close to conclusion
The Internet Service Providers' Association of South Africa (ISPA) lodged a complaint with the Competition Commission (CC) in December 2005 against a variety of anti-competitive practices by Telkom. A number of these anti-competitive practices relate to ADSL, but the complaint also covered a lot of other issues.
“We try to avoid a public perception that ADSL is the only problem [regarding Telkom] that the CC needs to look at. There are many other serious anti-competitive practices that ISPA believes also require the CC's attention,” said ISPA’s Ant Brooks.
According to ISPA the CC has received a number of other complaints about Telkom's practices in the Internet sector, and the competition body seems to have been investigating all of these complaints in parallel.
“ISPA and ISPA Members have been co-operating fully with the Commission. Particularly during the last six months. The CC has been very actively investigating the various complaints before it and has been soliciting additional information from a number of parties,” said Brooks.
ISPA has given the CC permission to extend its six month deadline in which it has to investigate a complaint a few times, and the new deadline to rule on this issue is June 2008.
ISPA is however confident that the CC will not require any more extensions. “We are expecting an outcome from the Commission before June 2008,” Brooks concluded.
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