Fair Mobile - Some data

By Steve Song, on November 9th, 2009 Print This Post Email This Post

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Here is a first stab at putting together an index that relates the cost of mobile services to income at the bottom of the pyramid in Africa. I found some ILO data on minimum wage that covers 24 African countries and a I found [...]

November 9th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Telecom Policy | 16 comments

Fair Mobile – A Start

By Steve Song, on October 26th, 2009 Print This Post Email This Post

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Katrin Verclas and I and a few others have been kicking around the notion of Fair Mobile for some time now.  The essence of Fair Mobile is the idea of developing some metrics for equitable, competitive mobile markets that deliver optimal value for money to [...]

October 26th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Telecom Policy | 11 comments