The South American research network, DIRSI, have just published a report entitled “Tariffs and affordability gap of mobile telephony services in Latin America and the Caribbean” which profiles mobile affordability in Latin America and the Caribbean. In this post I contrast their approach with my own fledgling work on a Fair Mobile index for Africa. [...] [...]
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By Steve Song, on April 29th, 2009   At the end of the movie Annie Hall, Woody Allen says, this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, ‘Doc, uh, my brother’s crazy, he thinks he’s a chicken,’ and uh, the doctor says, ‘well why don’t you turn him in?’ And the guy says, ‘I would, but I need the eggs.’ Well, I guess [...] [...] By Steve Song, on April 14th, 2009 Courtesy of the ITU’s Measuring the Information Society Report, here is a list of SMS charges in thirty-eight African countries. The costs are listed in U.S. dollars and in Purchasing Power Parity dollars. Interesting to note in the below that there is an order of magnitude difference between the cheapest and most expensive SMS in [...] [...] |
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