in moving away from the group’s legacy networks and driving demand for its next-generation fibre and 4G/LTE services.
Part of phase one of the restructuring was looking at the BCX ecosystem, as opposed to your mobile ecosystem. This business sells people, right? It’s almost like a consulting type of proposition where it is billing human resources, to put it quite bluntly, so like a typical consultant ecosystem.
So, how do we maximise, for example, in attacking a Standard Bank or an Absa now that Telkom Mobile is stronger. We can provide them with a One Telkom solution and reduce their spend by X amount, because now we can provide a comprehensive offering. So, it is an interesting directive that has come from the Competition Tribunal, especially when the communications authority, which is Icasa, approved the deal. Investors may start to question who is the authority that is driving the telecoms industry.