Tag: mobile
Mapping the Unserved
As connectivity becomes increasingly valuable to everyone, access to communication is becoming as important as access to other kinds of basic infrastructure. As a result there is an increased urgency to make affordable communication infrastructure accessible to ALL citizens. Yet,...
Zero-Rating: A Modest Proposal
Imagine a world where all phones were automatically connected to the Internet, at no charge. Is this an idle fantasy? The current worldwide debate about Zero-Rating and Network Neutrality has brought the issue of affordable Internet access into sharp relief....
A Look at Spectrum in Four African Countries
Does effective spectrum management make a real difference when it comes to more pervasive and affordable access to communication? In this post I look at the spectrum management regimes in four African countries: Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, and South Africa, and...
Mobile — You Keep Using That Word
In his predictions for 2014, Google chairman Eric Schmidt boldly states “mobile has won“. For a man who has made some fairly ambitious predictions in the past, pundits regarded this prediction as fairly tame, perhaps even self-evident. Yet lurking beneath...
Africa’s LTE Future
If you follow communication infrastructure in Africa, you would be forgiven if you have begun to think of LTE as the promised land. There is no doubt that nobile networks have transformed access on the continent. Now, we are apparently...