S.A. mobile operator escapes antitrust investigation

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South African mobile phone and data provider Cell C has managed to avoid a potential Competition Commission investigation upon having changed its text-message (SMS) pricing scheme.  The industry group that was slated to bring a formal complaint, WASPA (no kidding, that’s their actual acronym), decided not to lodge the complaint in light of the less discriminatory pricing of Cell C’s bulk SMS rates.

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