By Steve Song, on October 31st, 2008

Minister Matsepe-Casaburri courtesy kjd
Here in South Africa, Justice Norman Davis has denied Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburi’s request to appeal the Altech ruling. This once again opens the doors to competition in the telecoms sector in South Africa. The Minister can still appeal to the Supreme Court but let us hope that she takes good advice [...]
By Steve Song, on October 29th, 2008

Last week I attended the MobileActive08 conference in Johannesburg which I have to say is one of the better conferences I have attended in a while. Partly because of the turn-out of remarkable people, partly because of the non-talking-heads format of the event and partly because of the interesting initiatives that I think are going [...]
By Steve Song, on October 16th, 2008

I’ve now moved the African Undersea Cables map to a permanent page that I will update as new information emerges. The latest revision includes updates of:
the EASSy cable to reflect its growth to 1.4 terabits
the TEAMS cable to reflect its growth to 1.2 terabits (120 gigabits initial)
the SAT3 cable to remove the proposed 2010 [...]
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