Category: Telecom Policy
Telecommunications and access issues.
Open Access Infrastructure and the Cost of Mistrust
Recently I’ve been writing about the relationship of openness and trust in open movements which has led me to think more about the strategic role of trust in general. Now I find that almost every problem I try to analyse...
Africa Telecoms Infrastructure in 2014
A look back. My review of African telecom infrastructure development in 2014. Undersea Cables Perhaps the most noticeable thing about undersea fibre-optic cable development around Africa was the soundless popping of project bubbles that failed to gain traction. WASACE,...
Spectrum Safari Lagos!
Having become a little more familiar with the RTL-SDR dongle and the RTLSDR Scanner software after a first attempt in Ghana, I had the opportunity to try out a spectrum scan in Lagos, Nigeria while at an Alliance for Affordable...
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 in Africa based on that...
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...