Rain may have shown part of its hand in an ongoing telecom  consolidation chess game, now asking Telkom to buy out its business as part of a plan to take on SA’s two largest mobile players.  

MTN has issued a letter in which it probably voices its displeasure that data-only network provider Rain has tabled a formal non-binding proposal to merge with mobile and fixed-line operator Telkom. This comes a few weeks after Rain received a public rebuke by the Takeover Regulation Panel for not following due process...

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