Fernando Borj News Today

Leon Louw Government’s plan to create a wholesale open-access network, or Woan, “will serve no useful purpose” and could, in fact, harm consumers – the exact opposite of what it’s meant to achieve. This is a key finding in a new “socioeconomic impact assessment”, or SEIA, produced by the Free Market Foundation (FMF) and published on Tuesday. The SEIA report argues that it is a mistake to try to impose competition through such a mechanism and suggests that the Woan project is the p...