Dear All Apology, only realised now that I was requested to forward to SSN & Republic of Swaziland Forums by the MTN Blacout 20 Days Campaign
Cde Sabelo ----- Original Message ----- From: MTN Blackout 20 Days Campaign Cultural Boycot To: sa-swaziland-solidarity-eom-forum@googlegroups.com Cc: republicofswaziland+dialo...@groupspaces.com Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2012 5:11 AM Subject: Day 3 & 4 (Weekend) - Walk The Talk Towards a Republic of Swaziland: Support Cultural Boycott - MTN Blackout 20 Days Campaign DAY 3 & 4 (Weekend): Saturday blackout: Dial an MTN Swazi cell number and call it at exactly 12:00 noon News flash on Swazi MTN's vulnerability to blackouts: Swaziland; SPTC, MTN in war of words over blackout Link: Issue no 571 9th September 2011 The recent cellphones blackout has given birth to a fresh war of words between giant companies, the Swaziland Posts and Telecommunication Corporation (SPTC) and Swazi MTN. The two companies are currently embroiled in a legal battle over the One Fixed mobile phones launched by SPTC. MTN is contesting that SPTC cannot run a similar project as theirs before clearing certain things that involve sale of its (SPTC) shares with MTN. Last weekend, the country experienced a blackout that somehow was placed squarely on SPTC’s laps. MTN further apologised to its customers over the blackout. “SPTC wishes to unequivocally disassociate itself from Swazi MTN’s network outage experienced on Saturday. The statement issued by Swazi MTN imputing that the outage was as a result of a break in the SPTC backbone link between Mbabane and Matsapha is wholly inaccurate and lacks any basis whatsoever,” reads the statement in part. SPTC management stated that they were not privy to reasons behind Swazi MTN’s unfounded assertion. “However, we are cognisant of the detrimental effects the statement has on the image of SPTC as a telecommunications service provider both domestically and globally”. There was no immediate comment from MTN. In April High Court Judge Bheki Maphalala declared that there is not a conflict of interest in the SPTC entering the retail market as it was no longer a shareholder in MTN Swaziland, having recently transferred its 41% shareholding to the Ministry of Finance. Further, Maphalala indicated that the SPTC has shed its regulatory responsibilities, handing them over to the government’s Ministry of Communications. In January the SPTC provoked MTN’s ire when it denied the cellco a 3G licence despite the fact that the network had successfully been trialled during the Common Market for Eastern & Southern Africa (COMESA) summit in August 2010. No reason was provided for the licence refusal (Source: The Swazi Observer) Viva April 12 Movement - MTN Blackout in Siteki - Lubombo (2011) Viva Cultural Boycott against MTN Bushfire Festival! Long Live SSN Long Live! Viva the Republic of Swaziland! Released by MTN Blackout 20 Days Campaign Syndicate Contact Rinto: mtn.blackout.campa...@gmail.com -- NEW!!!! SSN FORUM IS ON FACEBOOK!!!! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Swaziland Solidarity Network Forum Google Group. Visit the group home page at http://groups.google.com/group/sa-swaziland-solidarity-eom-forum for more options, pages and files. To post to the group, send email to sa-swaziland-solidarity-eom-forum@googlegroups.com or reply to this message. To unsubscribe, send email to sa-swaziland-solidarity-eom-forum-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
