SMS Interconnect Fees
An interesting offshoot of my investigation in to Fair Mobile statistics was the discovery that some African operators charge an interconnect fee for SMS messages. Now interconnect fees are a topic of hot debate at…
Fair Mobile – Some data
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…
Fair Mobile – A Start
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,…
Mobile Operators and Blue Gum Trees
I see in the press yesterday that Safaricom have won an innovation award for their MPesa service from a UN agency. “The Habitat Business Award for sustainable urbanization, which is organized by the United Nations…
WGSDIA – Lobby For Cheaper SMS Charges
This third “What Google Should Do In Africa” post could be subtitled “Grow some balls”. Why, oh why, is it that Google, so unafraid to tackle telco and broadcast market behemoths in the United States,…