An African TV White Space Strategy
TV White Space (TVWS) technology and regulation has its roots in the United States in the early 2000’s where there was an emerging sense of the growing impact of wireless technologies designed for unlicensed (ISM…
Dynamic Spectrum in Africa in 2018
Advocating for change in spectrum regulation is not a game for sprinters. As someone who has championed dynamic spectrum regulation for a longer than I would ever have imagined, I am still getting used to…
Dynamic Spectrum in 2015
“The Calm Before The Storm” was the subtitle I used to describe my experience of the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance’s Global Summit in 2014. Fast forward to 2015 where I have just returned from this year’s…
Dynamic Spectrum in Africa in 2014
It seems like ages ago but it was less than a year ago that Google sponsored a forum on TV White Spaces in Africa in Dakar. I wrote an article on the state of TV White Spaces…
The Real Reason Why White Spaces Spectrum Matters
You may have seen a resurgence of news about “Net Neutrality” in the last few weeks. This is because a US court recently ruled that the communications regulator (the Federal Communications Commission- FCC) doesn’t have…