Balancing Act (London)
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May 21
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Smile Communications has put in place the first public roll-out in Africa of LTE in 800 MHz spectrum in Tanzania and has ambitious plans to roll out in the same spectrum in three... Read more »
May 12
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Somalia: Nation Begins to Pick Itself Up and Looks At Bringing International Bandwidth [analysis]
It may be two steps forward and one step back but Somalia is beginning to pick itself up off the ground after years of civil war. In the absence of regulation, a telecoms sector... Read more »
May 7
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Africa: New Trends in the African Broadcast TV Market [interview]
Issue no 155 Telecoms, Internet and Broadcast in Africa - 2 May 2013 Read more »
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Africa: U.S.$2 Million Valuation for Africa Gaming Sector
Until recently, the African gaming sector has been largely a small number of dedicated and enthusiastic developers in search of a business model. This week's announcement that... Read more »
April 29
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Africa: The Buying and Selling Game - a Backstage Look At the Way Mergers and Acquisitions Happen [analysis]
With the developed world economies flat-lining, the prospect of investing in Africa has never been more attractive. With the halo effect from the mobile growth years still in... Read more »
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Africa: New TV Sports Programmes Aimed At African FTA Broadcasters [interview]
Gary Rathbone is launching a range of new TV sports programmes aimed at African Free To Air broadcasters. Read more »
March 20
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Africa: TV White Spaces Proof of Concept Offers Promising Route for Rural Coverage [interview]
A joint venture between the ISP Indigo, Microsoft and the Kenyan Government has rolled out a TV White Spaces Proof of Concept in two parts of rural Kenya. This is the one of the... Read more »
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Africa: Digital TV Deployment Across Africa Will Require Satellite [interview]
African countries will need satellite help to meet the ITU's 2015 digital switchover deadline. Read more »
November 13, 2012
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Africa: Tuluntulu's Low Bandwidth Video Streaming Service Could Open Up Video to a New Market Ahead of Lte
Tuluntulu has a technology that can deliver video over EDGE. It ensures that the audio signal remains intact and reduces picture quality with out breaking as the bandwidth goes... Read more »
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Africa: Discop Africa 2012 Round-Up - African Content Busy Being Born in Hybrid Forms [opinion]
DISCOP Africa 2012 came back with a bang after something of a dip last year in its new venue in Johannesburg, attracting 1,248 delegates from 85 different countries. It is the one... Read more »
November 5, 2012
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Africa: South Africa's Maboneng Project Offers a Clue to Potential Urban Regeneration Strategies for Africa Using High Speed Broadband [analysis]
This week's TV content market DISCOP in Johannesburg saw Neotel and property developer, the Maboneng Project promoting their joint fibre-to-the-home service aimed at attracting... Read more »
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They are several international news agencies with global reporting networks but few with a strong presence in Africa with the exception of AFP, Reuters and Xinhua. Balancing Act... Read more »
September 3, 2012
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Tanzania: Govt Rolls Out Fibre-Optic Offerings
Tanzania's plans for a national fibre backbone and fibre connections to all of its neighbours is finally being realized. The Government-run NICTBB has completed Phase 2 of its... Read more »
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Africa: Broadcasters Interact with Audiences by SMS
As TV and radio broadcast markets intensify across several liberalized African countries, broadcasters need to find solutions to create more interactive with their audiences and... Read more »
August 31, 2012
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Africa: Hybrid Base Station Power Supplier Close To Africa Roll-Out
There are a number of companies working on producing low CAPEX and OPEX base stations. Africa's Orun Energy has chosen to focus on power and cooling and makes some bold claims in... Read more »
August 19, 2012
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Africa: NHU Africa's Christopher Mason on Growing the Wildlife and Natural History Programme Genre [interview]
This week, Sylvain Beletre, Senior Analyst at 'Balancing Act' interviewed Christopher Mason from 'NHU Africa', a commissioning body and production house that has shown that making... Read more »
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Nigeria: CAPCOM Aims to Become Nigeria's Biggest Retail Broadband Operator
The emerging deal that puts all the CDMA operators into a single pot with a US$200 million capital investment has been represented as the creation of a new mobile voice operator.... Read more »
August 10, 2012
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Africa: Thirst for Social Networking Spurs Mobile Growth
Africa's thirst for social networking seems insatiable and homegrown products to meet this thirst, like MXit and 2go, have really got traction. Read more »
August 7, 2012
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This event report is the second part of our last article entitled 'BFMA Wrap up: a much larger role for African producers and broadcasters in the future' . Read more »
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The few attempts to create bespoke devices for education by NGOs and companies have not had a spectacular track record. The Worldspace satellite radio is no more and although One... Read more »
July 30, 2012
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Nigeria: Mobile Money Providers Struggle
In this Nigeria mobile money special, there are two views of the market. Emmanuel Okoegwale, Principal Associate, MobileMoneyAfrica identifies lack of clarity over current... Read more »
July 22, 2012
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Ghana: Mobile Number Portability Slowly Begins to Take Off
Mobile number portability schemes in Africa have not yet been a real success. There are a variety of reasons, including multiple phone ownership. But Ghana's NCA has been running a... Read more »
July 15, 2012
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Africa: Video Streaming Coming to Africa
Video streaming will be the next big wave of online content use in Africa. There are still considerable network challenges but... the level of existing use shows that once these... Read more »
July 9, 2012
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Triple Play (voice Internet and TV services) holds out the prospect of faster household growth for both broadcasters and telcos in Africa. But thus far, legal restrictions on... Read more »
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Liberia: Cellcom Rolls Out HSPA+ Network and Gains a Technology Edge Over Its Competitors
On June 21st, Cellcom officially launched its HSPA+ services at a ceremony attended by a crowd of over 400 VIPs. For a day, Monrovia's City Hall was decorated with Cellcom's red... Read more »
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