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February 3
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Liberia: Taxing International Inbound Calls - Is There a Middle Way?
Many African regulators' have introduced a tax on international inbound calls. It started with Côte d'Ivoire and then spread like a plague to Gabon, Ghana and Senegal, to... Read more »
February 1
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Africa: SMS Use Set to Decline as Smartphones Take Over
At the end of 2011, there were the first signs of smartphone use on SMS: for the first time in some countries, rather than the volume of SMS growing inexorably, it declined for the... Read more »
January 26
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Egypt: Vodafone Launches Mvno Bladna Targeted At Diaspora Living in Italy
Last Saturday in Milan, Vodafone Egypt threw in a free concert with the famous Egyptian singer Nancy Ajram to launch its first MVNO under the label "Bladna". Bladna which means... Read more »
January 23
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Africa: Audience Research Ignorance Holds Back Africa
The rational version of how advertisers and advertising agencies buy airtime is through using media planning based on audience research. Africa's reality is very different with... Read more »
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Egypt: Vodafone Egypt Launches Mvno Bladna Targeted At Diaspora Living in Italy
Last Saturday in Milan, Vodafone Egypt threw in a free concert with the famous Egyptian singer Nancy Ajram to launch its first MVNO under the label "Bladna". Read more »
January 13
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Africa: The Achilles Heel of Continent's New Fibre Network Revolution [analysis]
The reach of Africa's fibre networks is extending relentlessly in ways that would have been barely imaginable ten years ago. The speed and the capacity of the new fibre networks... Read more »
January 10
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Cameroon: Citizen Launches «africa 24 » From Paris Backed By Equatorial Guinea
A new Panafrican information channel, Africa 24, broadcasting 24 hours a day initially in French was officially launched on 12 May in Paris. Created by the Cameroonian Constant... Read more »
January 9
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South Africa: 5FM and SABC3 Team Up to Launch (TV)5
On 26 January 2011, it was announced that 5FM and SABC 3 have joined forces to bring an innovative entertainment show to South African audiences. Marking the start of a new chapter... Read more »
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Africa: Making Best Use of International Cable Capacity - a Real Wind of Change for Africa in 2012?
When the WACS and ACE submarine cables are commissioned in 2012, in theory the African continent will have access to more international capacity than it knows what to do with. In... Read more »
December 12, 2011
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Trace Africa joins Channel O and MTV Base Africa in offering Africans the chance to see their own music on TV. Trace is going through a growth spurt with Trace Urban, Trace... Read more »
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Liberia: Despite High Costs, ILAB Creates a New Initiative to Promote ICT
The ACE submarine fibre cable landed in Liberia on November 4th in between the two rounds for presidential election. On November 8th, Ellen Sirleaf Johnson was re-elected President... Read more »
December 5, 2011
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Africa: Mobile Data Service in Continent - Too Much Talk for Very Little Revenue
At the presentation of Vodacom's interim results for the six months ending 30 September 2011, Pieter Uys, Vodacom Group CEO commented on South Africa's good data revenue... Read more »
November 28, 2011
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Headquartered in Kigali, Rwanda's capital city, TV company Tele10 started in one of Africa's smallest countries, Burundi, but it has ambitions to change how television is delivered... Read more »
November 26, 2011
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Africa: New Cable Project Bundles Together All Africa's Fibre Dreams
There's a rather cruel definition that does the rounds amongst those who watch these things: What's an international fibre project? A person with a power-point presentation who... Read more »
November 21, 2011
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While oil prices have not yet reached the peak levels witnessed in the summer of 2008, their steady growth with the OPEC basket price of an oil barrel passing the US$100 mark in... Read more »
November 14, 2011
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Africa: Diasporas Represent Big Opportunity for African TV Broadcasters and Film-Makers
The African diaspora is one of the keys to changing the financial circumstances of both African TV and film. Read more »
November 12, 2011
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Africa: Telecoms Ready for Another Growth Spurt If World Economy Doesn't Tank
Africa's annual gabba-gabba fest AfricaCom took place this week with the organisers claiming that visitor numbers were up yet again. Vendors from almost every corner of the globe... Read more »
November 8, 2011
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Africa: Adventures in Social Media - What We've Discovered Over 12 Months [analysis]
The growth in Africa's Facebook numbers show that it has touched a chord with users at a near mass level. Social media played a part in the Arab Spring and they've been arguing... Read more »
October 31, 2011
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Something that would have seemed crazy two years ago in Africa can now quite easily be considered a part of the near future. Bandwidth and internet users are now at the point where... Read more »
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Nigerian bandwidth is improving but ever so slowly. There is no sign of a broadband strategy to power this process forward. However, despite this unpromising soil for growth, there... Read more »
October 24, 2011
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Southern Africa: Liquid Telecoms' Fibre Network Connects Southern Africa
Liquid Telecom has been quietly building out its Southern Africa fibre network that will eventually be 8,500 kms long and cost US$170 million. Its network is now meeting the fibre... Read more »
October 17, 2011
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Nollywood is a huge continental film phenomenon but it has survived with a business model that clunks along the bottom as it is largely seen (by the yard) on television or on... Read more »
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Africa: Data Moves Centre-Stage - the Delights and Perils of Wi-Fi Offloading, Pricing Models and Access
In Africa, mobile operators are finding themselves in a situation where their data traffic exceeds their voice traffic but the income from data is much smaller. The crunch is that... Read more »
October 9, 2011
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Africa: Africa and TV White Spaces - the Ghosts in the Machine Could Provide Additional Spectrum At Low Cost
This week saw a workshop on TV White Spaces sponsored by APC, the Open Spectrum Alliance of South Africa, the Wireless Access Providers Association in South Africa and Google... Read more »
October 4, 2011
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North Africa: Arab Spring Opens Up Airwaves
The Arab Spring has provided much needed momentum for Free-To-Air broadcast liberalisation in North Africa. Read more »
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