Published: 08 August 2013

The Consumer Council of Zimbabwe has commended the Government and the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe for addressing the issue of the licensing of Telecel Zimbabwe.

Telecel's licence was renewed on Tuesday after the country's second largest mobile operator made a commitment to comply with the requirement to have a local majority shareholder.

"The CCZ hopes that the licensing of Telecel Zimbabwe translates into immediate restoration of interconnection services to Telecel Zimbabwe and marks an end to a raging dispute between the two rival mobile companies, which has in the past few weeks, inflicted irreparable damage to hapless consumers," the council said.

Last month, Econet Wireless suspended interconnection with Telecel citing that its new licence did not allow it to interconnect with an unregistered operator.
- businessdaily

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