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Incentive Issues in African Telecommunications

Posted by Jenny Stefanotti on Thursday, October 1, 2009, In : ICT4D 
Note to most African governments: "You're going the wrong way."

Everyone's excited about the imminent glut of bandwidth headed Africa's way from the construction of multiple submarine cables.  SEACOM went live last July, to the thrill of anyone excited about ICT4D.  Increased competition for international backhaul connections has the potential to drop the Mbps cost for Africa to connect to the outside world by a full order of magnitude, from the thousands to hundreds of dollars per month.  Suc...

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Africa's Golden Opportunity

Posted by Jenny Stefanotti on Thursday, October 1, 2009, In : ICT4D 
This week's Economist has a special report on telecoms in emerging markets that I highly recommend to anyone interested in ICT4D.  While much of the report reiterates what many of us already know, one of the articles in particular got me really excited and essentially validates a lot of what I was reaching for in Liberia this past summer: domestic infrastructure itself can be organized in a way to bring dramatic drops in operating costs.  Given the highly competitive nature of service provide...

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