MACRA announced two months ago that it had started processing the revocation of the operation licence it gave to G-Mobile after its failure to beat a third deadline of 12 April 2010.
On 20 May 2010 MACRA, through the High Court of Malawi, imposed a penalty which gave G-mobile 30 days to pay the money or have its licence revoked. Instead of paying the money, G-Mobile instead went to the High Court where it took an injunction against MACRA restraining it from enforcing payment. After the expiry of the injunction last month, the company applied for an extension, which High Court Judge Justice Lovemore Chikopa granted. He extended the injunction because MACRA agreed to extend the deadline on condition that G-Mobile pay the penalty by 19 June 2010.
The judge ruled that all the parties in the matter should, by 9 August 2010, have exchanged all documentation including affidavits and skeleton arguments setting 23 August 2010 as the day the court would sit again for the case.
