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By Steve Song, on April 3rd, 2009
  There’s an interesting AFP article on the city of Johannesburg’s 1 billion Rand (~105 million USD) contract with Ericsson to deliver municipal broadband infrastructure. In it they quote an anonymous “telecoms expert” who says: …that municipalities were already stretched to provide basic utility services, and that the provisioning of telecoms services would simply put additional strain [...] By Steve Song, on March 18th, 2009
I am getting quite excited about the upcoming South African Broadband Forum next week. Inspired by the coalition that emerged in the United States to get broadband infrastructure investment on the political agenda in the run-up to the U.S. election, the Association for Progressive Communications, the Shuttleworth Foundation, Sangonet, and the South Africa Connect project [...] By Steve Song, on March 10th, 2009
The winds of change are blowing for mobile operators. The comfortable oligopolies enjoyed by most mobile operators around the are being challenged by the very thing that enabled them in the first place, technology. The growth of availability and drop in price of mobile broadband mean that there is less and less reason to have [...] |
 
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