Maybe they were smarting because they thought the gov wouldn't be able to afford to take their slice, but because of SEY they could so all players lost a few %.
I remember from long ago FOG and the operators had good conditions for the deal tax wise because of their early entry. DNX bought up the blocks at the end, but these weren't thought of as prime targets from the data.
I presume SEY still has the agreements re western sahara, although this always seemed a long shot. Is this true?