Category: Telecom Policy
Telecommunications and access issues.
Why Telcos Must Be Open About Their Infrastructure, And How It Could Connect The Unconnected
The telecommunications sector is worth billions of dollars and increasingly underpins every aspect of our lives, from education to commerce to family life. Yet, there is little public information about the physical infrastructure that carries the information highway. This lack...
Africa Telecoms Infrastructure in 2019
Welcome to the 6th annual review of telecommunications infrastructure development in Africa. This review combines my analysis of the last 12 months as well as links to over 270 articles covering a range of African telecom infrastructure development issues in...
LocalRating – A Better Approach to Network Neutrality and ZeroRating
It is a little over two years since the Indian communication regulator (TRAI) banned any kind of discriminatory or preferential pricing for internet services India. Credit for this ruling can be attributed to a very public campaign against Facebook’s implementation...
Spectrum Auctions Are Killing Competition And Failing Rural Access
If you are reading this, you are already within a narrow cross-section of people whose eyes have not rolled up into their heads at seeing the term “spectrum auctions” in a headline. The rules of how wireless spectrum is made...
How to Mine My Africa Telecom News Data
For the last five years, I’ve published an annual review of African telecommunications infrastructure development. These reviews are based on news articles I collect over the preceding twelve-month period. All of the articles I bookmark are stored with structured metadata...