Balancing Act (London)
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November 13
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 »
July 6
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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 »
July 2
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Africa: First Shots Fired in the Coming Mobile Content War
There are now several online and mobile music TV platforms that have started in Africa. Some like Iroko Partners started with Nollywood film and went into music, whilst others like... Read more »
June 25
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Africa: Mobile Music Comes to Africa
There are now several online and mobile music TV platforms that have started in Africa. Some like Iroko Partners started with Nollywood film and went into music, whilst others... Read more »
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Mauritius: Bharat Telecoms to Launch Island-Wide Fibre Network and High-Speed FTTH Broadband
A joint venture between local and Indian investors, Bharat Telecoms has set itself the ambitious target of connecting every home and office in Mauritius to a fibre network. It has... Read more »
June 15
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Nigeria: Online Games Sector for PCs and Mobile Springs Into Life in Nigeria - Free Now, Pay-for Later [analysis]
Outside of South Africa, the games sector in Africa has had almost no profile, which is strange considering that it will almost certainly be one of the key content drivers on... Read more »
June 11
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Africa: South Africa's MeTVAfrica.com VOD Service Targets a Pan-Continental Audience With Anything but Nollywood [analysis]
There are probably four places where African VOD sites will succeed: the diaspora; Nigeria; East Africa and South Africa. Nollywood Love has successfully parked its tent on the... Read more »
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Africa: VOD Services Are Beginning to Gain Traction but Are Operators Ready for This Kind of Traffic? [analysis]
There's a mismatch happening out there in African markets. Users have demonstrated that they want streaming video services and they want them now. However, the majority of... Read more »
June 4
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Sponsored by Nokia, infoDev and the Government of Finland, this week's Open Innovation Africa Summit (OIAS) in Nairobi focused on how to create the ecosystem that will help develop... Read more »
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