{"id":43459,"date":"2012-02-15T16:28:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T14:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=43459"},"modified":"2012-02-15T18:30:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T16:30:39","slug":"telkom-competition-case-adjourned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/43459-telkom-competition-case-adjourned.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom competition case adjourned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hearing into whether <a title=\"Telkom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227037-Telkom\">Telkom<\/a> abused its market dominance was adjourned in the Competition Tribunal on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The tribunal would consider the evidence and make a finding in due course on whether Telkom abused its dominance in the telecommunications market.<\/p>\n<p>Should it find against Telkom, the Competition Commission wanted the company to be fined R3.5 billion, <a title=\"South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/313653-South-African-Broadcasting-Corporation-(SABC)\">SABC<\/a> reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In its heads of arguments, Telkom argued that its profits had been declining in the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>The penalty would be &#8220;catastrophic&#8221; and would affect its &#8220;operations and irretrievably jeopardise its viability&#8221;, Business Day reported on Wednesday .<\/p>\n<p>The case was referred to the tribunal in 2004 after the commission found Telkom guilty of charging excessive prices to smaller independent companies &#8212; which relied on the company&#8217;s network infrastructure to provide data services like the internet and <a title=\"SMS - Short Message Service\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/289539-SMS-Short-Message-Service\">SMS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom denied this.<\/p>\n<p>The commission also found that Telkom was discriminating against the independent service providers in that it charged lower rates to its affiliates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hearing into whether Telkom abused its market dominance was adjourned in the Competition Tribunal on Wednesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":38619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,361,109],"class_list":["post-43459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-sabc","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43461,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43459\/revisions\/43461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}