SNO bidder Goldleaf says that it is filing papers requesting the courts to urgently halt the SNO licensing process. This after Minister of Communications Dr Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri accepted Icasa's recommendation that neither Goldleaf nor Optis be awarded the 51% Strategic Equity Partner (SE) stake in the SNO. Goldleaf believes that the process leading to the recommendation was "fatally flawed".