The Importance of Being Local

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I’m a big fan of Huawei‘s website.  Like any good company they publish information intended for their clients, mobile operators.  Reading their publications from the perspective of a mobile operator makes perfect sense but reading it as a consumer has quite a different flavour.

I first [...]

Use Universal Service Funds to Pay for Civil Society Participation in Telecom Regulation

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Not quite a level playing field.

Telecommunications markets are notoriously difficult to regulate effectively.  Telecom operators wield a great deal of power thanks to their wealth and the effectively hold they have on their markets whether through landlines or spectrum licenses and they don’t hesitate [...]

Facebook Zero Helps Ideas Multiply at the Bottom of the Pyramid

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I am still frankly gobstopped by Facebook’s announcement.  I vaguely caught the news of Facebook Zero but assumed it was just another mobile interface to Facebook.  It was only when I read Erik Hersman’s post about it that I got the whole story.  Not only [...]