Namibia: Regulator Cran's Decision to Approve Sale of MTC Investor Stake Leaves Telecoms Sector All in Government Hands

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London — Namibia is now one of Africa's strangest telecoms markets, having taken up position just below Ethiopia. Its regulator CRAN barred the sale of a 34% private investor state in MTC to Namibia Post and Telecommunications Holdings (NPTH) in November but has flip-flopped and allowed it to go ahead. Russell Southwood looks at what's happening.

In September last year I looked at what I called the topsy-turvy world of telecoms in Namibia.

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