By Steve Song, on June 14th, 2010

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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 [...]
By Steve Song, on June 19th, 2009

This entry is part of a series, What Google Should Do In Africa» jQuery(document).ready(function($) { window.setTimeout(‘loadFBShareMe_745()’,5000); }); function loadFBShareMe_745(){ jQuery(document).ready(function($) { $(‘.dd-fbshareme-745′).remove();$(‘.DD_FBSHAREME_AJAX_745′).attr(‘width’,’53′);$(‘.DD_FBSHAREME_AJAX_745′).attr(‘height’,’69′);$(‘.DD_FBSHAREME_AJAX_745′).attr(‘src’,'http://widgets.fbshare.me/files/fbshare.php?url=http://manypossibilities.net/2009/06/what-google-should-do-in-africa-preface/&size=large’); }); }Tweet
This is an introduction to a series of posts on what I think Google ought to be doing in Africa, that is to say what I think they ought to be [...]
By Steve Song, on March 20th, 2009

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Imagine an alternate reality. You’re an innovative start-up like Twitter or perhaps one of the many “adjacent possible” enterprises that Twitter has spawned. You’ve designed your new service and are ready to take over the world. All you need to do now is negotiate access [...]
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