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 [...]

What Google Should Do In Africa – Preface

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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 [...]

Nathan and the Mobile Operators

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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 [...]