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Written by: Steve Song
Posted in: africa, development assistance, Fellows Blogs, ict4d, m4d, Steve Song, Telecom Policy
- Three reasons why M4D may be bad for Development
- Fair warning, this post is a slightly intemperate and possibly ill-advised rant but sometimes you just have to get something off your chest if only to enable someone else to tell you how wrong you... Read more – ‘Three reasons why M4D may be bad for Development’.
Written by: Steve Song
Posted in: African Terrestrial Fibre, Fellows Blogs, Steve Song, Telecom Policy
- AfTerFibreMapping Terrestrial Fibre Optic Cable Projects in Africa
- When I started putting together the African Undersea Cable Map about 3 years ago, I did it to solve my own problem. I couldn’t make sense of all the news articles about new undersea cable... Read more – ‘AfTerFibreMapping Terrestrial Fibre Optic Cable Projects in Africa’.
Written by: Steve Song
Posted in: auction, broadband, Fellows Blogs, South Africa, Steve Song, Telecom Policy
- Vodacom – Oh Really?
- Vodacom Group CEO Pieter Uys seems like a nice guy. I’ve never met him but you look at his picture and you think, here is a decent fellow. Which makes it all the harder to credit his... Read more – ‘Vodacom – Oh Really?’.
Written by: Steve Song
Posted in: Fair Mobile, Fellows Blogs, mobile, pricing, South Africa, Steve Song, Telecom Policy
- Fair Mobile – Two Years On
- In which I re-assert my self-appointed role of digitally holding African mobile operators’ feet to the fire for their rent-seeking behaviour. In today’s spotlight is Vodacom South... Read more – ‘Fair Mobile – Two Years On’.
Written by: Steve Song
Posted in: Fellows Blogs, Steve Song, Telecom Policy
- Safaricom – A Modest Proposal
- In April of the last year, Indian telecoms giant Airtel bought Zain‘s mobile operations across 16 countries in Africa. But it was in Kenya that Airtel decided to launch its first competitive... Read more – ‘Safaricom – A Modest Proposal’.