Genesis Analytics worked with Facebook London to understand how the digital economy and social media contribute towards realising three economic development opportunities in Africa. 

Genesis was retained by Media24, a large newspaper and magazine publisher, to defend predatory pricing allegations made against the group by the Competition Commission in what has proven to be South Africa’s seminal predation case.

Genesis was asked by a pan-African television and media company to design a more inclusive supply-chain strategy. This request came at a time of major disruption in the TV industry: entry of new competitors like Netflix, new platforms like internet and mobile TV, new technology like AI, and rapidly changing consumer habits.

Genesis was retained by a multimedia conglomerate to assist in changing customer behaviour using the principles of behavioural economics.

Genesis Analytics has been retained by ICASA to assist with their Priority Market Study to identify telecommunications key markets that are not characterised by effective competition and may require regulatory intervention to ensure that the goals of the National Development Plan can be met.

Genesis was contracted by the Competition Commission of South Africa as expert economic advisers in the assessment of a proposed merger between Vodacom South Africa, the largest mobile network operator in the country, and Neotel, the country’s second national fixed-line operator.

Genesis provided an independent assessment of the appropriate damages quantum following the repudiation of an agreement between two large South African companies in the communications sector. The analysis was performed on behalf of the defendant in a claim that exceeded R1-billion.

Genesis was commissioned by ICASA to assist in defending its mobile termination rates decision of March 2014 following a legal challenge to the proposed glide path by Vodacom and MTN. The project team played a critical role in the proceedings by demonstrating that the initial drop in termination rates for the larger operators was still above their costs. This allowed the court to suspend the order overturning the regulations for six months while ICASA undertook a more thorough investigation process.

‘Termination rates’ are the prices telecommunications operators pay each other to terminate calls originating on each other’s networks (for example, when an MTN customer calls a Vodacom customer, MTN pays a termination fee to Vodacom). For a variety of pro-competitive reasons, regulators around the world set these rates equal to the costs operators incur to provide termination services to each other.

Genesis was contracted by Neotel, South Africa's second fixed-line operator, to provide expert economic evidence in a commercial dispute between Neotel and Broadband Infraco, a state-owned supplier of fixed-line infrastructure. The project team focused on the quantification of the financial amount claimed by Broadband Infraco from Neotel, which involved a determination of market-related wholesale rates for national long-haul routes in South Africa.

Genesis was retained by the Competition Commission to assist in an investigation into a proposed mobile infrastructure sharing arrangement between MTN and Telkom Mobile.

Genesis provided an expert economic report to support the filing of a proposed joint venture between Dimension Data and MWeb for the development of public Wi-Fi hotspots throughout the country. The analysis of project team located the merger within the context of broader production joint ventures (JVs), as well as JVs in telecoms infrastructure sharing. 

Further to work Genesis had done in developing ICASA's 2014 termination rate regulations, the firm was commissioned to play a central role in defending those regulations against a subsequent High Court challenge.

The Shared Value team facilitated training and workshops for Samsung on improving the company's corporate citizenship in Africa.

Genesis was retained by the Competition Commission to assist it in an investigation into the proposed acquisition of a mobile data service provider, Afrihost, by the mobile operator MTN. The project team advised the commission on the definition of the market and on dominance at this level, as well as on the various theories of harm advanced by a number of competitors.  

Genesis was specifically selected by the Competition Commission of South Africa to provide expert reports and testimony in the prosecution of a series of abuse of dominance cases brought against the fixed-line incumbent, Telkom.

Genesis was retained to assess the effects of the proposed move from joint to sole control of the Natal Witness publishing group by Media24, which had evoked substantial opposition from other media groups involved in community newspaper publishing. 

Genesis provided an expert economic report in the filing for the acquisition of a magazine distribution company, OneLogix, by Media24, a print media company with its own newspaper and magazine distribution division called On the Dot. 

Genesis was commissioned to provide an expert economic submission on behalf of Algoa FM, which was in the process of applying to the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) for an expansion to the terms of its broadcasting licence.

Genesis was commissioned to provide expert evidence relating to the quantification of damages resulting from the repudiation of a contract between two companies in the communications industry.

In one of the largest telecommunications transactions in recent years, Genesis was retained to provide expert testimony and reports on behalf of Africa's largest mobile operator, MTN (South Africa). This related to MTN’s successful acquisition of the African operations of Verizon, one of the largest global communications companies, despite the fact that the merger had been vigorously opposed by a competitor.

Genesis was commissioned to assist a mobile operator with complaints that had been lodged with the Complaints and Compliance Committee of ICASA.

Genesis was commissioned to provide an analysis of the future of the television broadcasting industry in South Africa for a report commissioned by the National Association of Broadcasters in 2009. 

Genesis was commissioned to provide economic analysis and representations to the sector regulator regarding the licencing obligations of one of South Africa’s mobile operators, Cell C.

In a key report for the Office of the Presidency, Genesis developed a framework for economic regulators in the communications, transport, energy and water sectors. The framework focused on finding coherence in the design of regulations across the different sectors as differing approaches had previously been adopted.

Genesis was retained to file an expert report and testify in a landmark case involving a proposed acquisition in the communications and media sector. 

Genesis was retained by the Office of the Presidency to conduct the official 15-year review of telecommunications policy and its impact on government’s two central yet evolving objectives of securing cost-competitiveness and providing universal access.

Genesis was commissioned to undertake an assessment of the impact of extending Algoa FM’s broadcasting area to the Southern Cape region. 

Genesis has undertaken a number of key studies for Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA), comparing the prices of South African telecommunications services against international benchmarks. 

Genesis was retained to provide expert economic analysis on behalf of the Internet Service Provider Association (ISPA), which was pivotal in the successful opposition to the initial attempted merger between the incumbent fixed-line operator, Telkom, and one of the largest IT companies operating in South Africa, Business Connexion. 

Genesis was commissioned by the South African communications regulator, ICASA, to work on a number of key regulatory initiatives.  In one such case, the firm was commissioned to develop a series of market reviews, a legal requirement needed to justify both existing and new pro-competitive regulations.  

Genesis was commissioned to provide expert economic assistance to ICASA in the 2007 public hearings on wholesale interconnection, local access and various other services. 

Genesis was commissioned to assist the National Treasury in collating a wide range of data and information on the telecommunications sector in order to inform a World Bank cross-country study.  

Genesis was commissioned to provide expert economic analysis and testimony before the Competition Commission in a case relating to a proposed merger between two of the largest telecommunications cable producers in South Africa, ATC and Aberdare. 

Genesis was appointed by the World Bank to conduct an assessment of the effects of the introduction of South Africa’s Competition Act in 1998, as well as of its failure to curb the anti-competitive conduct dominating the telecommunications sector. This followed various findings of anti-competitive behaviour in the sector during the 2000s.