Vodacom – Oh Really?
Vodacom Group CEO Pieter Uys seems like a nice guy. I’ve never met him but you look at his picture and you think, here is a decent fellow. Which makes it all the harder to…
Africa and Television White Spaces
If you google “televisions white spaces”, you’ll see a small storm of news generated last week by the FCC’s finalising the rules for the use of television white spaces spectrum in the U.S. TV white…
What Google Should Do In Africa – Preface
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 doing outside of their…
Why WiFi in Africa?
Imagine an alternative history. Imagine that in 1995, when Microsoft launched their walled-garden MSN service, which they fully expected would, for all intents and purposes, put the Internet out of business, imagine that they succeeded.…
Another small victory for common sense
Here in South Africa, Justice Norman Davis has denied Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburi’s request to appeal the Altech ruling. This once again opens the doors to competition in the telecoms sector in South Africa. The Minister…