In July, as Quartz reported, Kenyan cabinet secretary Fred Matiang’i announced that the government would introduce new regulations aimed at guarding against monopolies, which could have led to Safaricom being declared anti-competitive and potentially split into three separate units.
But Kenya’s biggest mobile phone company can rest a little easier now after the country’s attorney general Githu Muigai instructed Matiang’i in a letter to his cabinet colleague to withdraw the proposals and “subject them to discussions.”
Full content: Quartz Africa
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