After a few days of the cancellation of the public tender of the fourth mobile phone operator in Angola, by the President of the Republic, the Telstar reacted to clarify the controversy surrounding the decision to assign the license of the fourth mobile operator.
It is now known that MTN was not the only one to give up the, according to the clarification note from the company that saw the license revoked by the President of the Republic a week after being announced as winner, were finalists of the contest to Telstar (Angolan), MTN (South African) e Yang Yimei from China.
So far, it is not clear what led these two finalist companies to give up in the last phase of the contest, with only Telstar remaining to compete. MTN claimed that the process was "flawed" and not at all "transparent", while Yang Yimei has yet to comment.
An interesting fact that was eventually revealed is that under the Public Tender Procedure Parts, in case of obtaining the TGU for the fourth global operator, 45% of the share capital of the company that won the tender would have to be held by a entity to be appointed by the Angolan State ”. This may be one of the reasons that led the companies mentioned above to give up.
