By Steve Song, on March 14th, 2008
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Reading the tech news in South Africa, you get the impression that WiMax is going to very shortly solve all of the country’s broadband issues. Articles like this one give the impression that WiMax will shortly be available in every major city in [...]
By Steve Song, on March 12th, 2008
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The conventional wisdom in the ICT4D community is that people in developing countries spend a higher percentage of their income on communications than the global average. For South Africa, this notion became is widely accepted (I think) thanks to the Vodafone study on mobile [...]
By Steve Song, on March 5th, 2008
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Meet Rael Lissoos, a economist turned geek entrepreneur. While I have been talking about Village Telcos, Rael has been out building one in Orange Farm, a township about an hour south of Johannesburg.
Rael’s company, Dabba.co.za, provides inexpensive voice and data services to residents, businesses, [...]
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