Balancing Act (London)
Website: http://balancingact-africa.com/
September 30, 2011
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Congo-Brazzaville: Mobile Money Transfer Services Carves a Niche for Itself
While there is a lot of publicity made around mobile payment services launched by mobile operators in Africa (thanks to their very well-oiled PR machine) there is much less... Read more »
September 26, 2011
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West Africa: Don't Miss the Boat With New West African Cable
On September 12th, the ACE submarine fibre cable landed close to Banjul, the capital of the Gambia. Excitement and interest were high as you can see from the photos taken at the... Read more »
September 22, 2011
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Africa: Achieving a high-speed Africa: Closing the gap between the potential promise and current reality [interview]
Africa's long road to high-speed broadband is being made in leaps and bounds. Every week brings news of another piece of the jigsaw fitting into place. This week it's the... Read more »
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Africa: Comedy Special - Programme Makers in Search of Africa's Funny Bone [interview]
What makes people laugh is widely watched. Local African comedy programmes of any quality nearly always shoot to the number one audience position. However, African broadcasters... Read more »
September 19, 2011
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Africa: High-Speed Broadband Grows by Leaps and Bounds [analysis]
Africa's long road to high-speed broadband is being made in leaps and bounds. Every week brings news of another piece of the jigsaw fitting into place. Read more »
September 12, 2011
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Africa: More Mobile Operators Embrace Dynamic Billing for Their Voice Services
In most African countries, mobile users are spoiled with attractive mobile promotion on voice services. In Kenya and Uganda, a price war has however left the mobile operators... Read more »
September 5, 2011
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Nigeria: Firm Finds a You Tube Business Model Selling Nollywood
Nigeria's Iroko Partners has hit upon a way of distributing Nollywood content legally, making money and giving some of that money back to the artists who made it. Read more »
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Africa: African Online Content and Services Come of Age
Last week's Mobile Entertainment World in Cape Town began to crystallize the beginning of successful, business-worthy African online content. It bought together a handful of mobile... Read more »
August 28, 2011
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Africa: List of Shame - Nations Which Tax Inbound Calls
The list of African countries that have implemented, are planning to implement or have failed to implement a tax on international inbound calls is getting longer by the day. Read more »
August 21, 2011
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Africa: Swedish Pay TV Operator Pulls Out of Africa
It's official. The Swedish-owned DTT Pay TV operator NGB which runs the Smart TV brand seems to have quietly slipped out of Africa, having offloaded off its three existing... Read more »
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Africa: Mobile Operators Start to Offer Blackberry-Style E-Mail And IM Services
Faced with falling voice ARPU and uncertain levels of data revenue from 3G services (launched or scheduled to be launched soon), a lot of African mobile operators are thinking of... Read more »
August 15, 2011
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A month ago, Balancing Act released its latest report on mobile apps for Africa: strategies to make sense of free and paid apps, and since then news have carried on coming on more... Read more »
August 8, 2011
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Africa: Chinese TV Firm Wins UEFA Free-to-Air Rights for Continent
UEFA announced that the 2012-15 free-to-air media rights for sub-Saharan Africa have been awarded to Chinese pay TV operator Star Times. It has come from nothing two years ago to... Read more »
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South Africa: Country Gets Its First Comparison Website for Broadband Services
With a growing number of internet service providers offering multiple broadband packages, South African users are now spoiled with choice. This is a good thing but the downside for... Read more »
August 1, 2011
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Africa: How Mobile Phone Operators Can Boost Capacity
Over the last five years Africa's mobile networks have undergone an intense period of constant upgrades as data has been added to the voice network. Read more »
July 25, 2011
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Liberia: Cellcom Introduces a Paperless SIM Card Registration Process
Liberia, one of the poorest countries in Africa has joined in the race to register its mobile users. The process was officially launched on July 18th by the Liberia... Read more »
July 21, 2011
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Africa: Major TV Industry Gathering Planned for Nairobi [interview]
Africa's TV content market DISCOP is coming back to Nairobi in September. Since 2008, it has not only made it easier for African TV buyers to do deals for content but has become an... Read more »
July 16, 2011
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Africa: New Report Gives Insights On Mobile APPs Potentials in Africa
There has hardly been a week without headlines on mobile apps in the last six months (see further in the newsletter, the announcement of Zantel launching an apps store in... Read more »
July 12, 2011
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Kenya: Firm Launches Eating Out Website
Beyond donor-funded web services and apps, new online commercial services are beginning to set up and attract traffic. Read more »
July 7, 2011
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Africa: Africa's Bumpy Road to the Digital Transition in Broadcasting -- Issues That Have to Be Faced
The front-runners in the race to make the transition to digital broadcasting are now facing a range of issues including: who runs the signal carrier?; how those who can't afford a... Read more »
July 6, 2011
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Senegal: Jokkolabs Hosts the First Mobile Monday Dakar [interview]
Last Monday, Jokkolabs hosted in Dakar the first Mobile Monday event ever held in francophone West Africa. The event which was attended by developers, mobile operators and key... Read more »
June 26, 2011
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Africa: Firm Rolls Out a Cloud Phone Aimed At Low-Income Users
Right at the bottom of the pyramid are phone users who can't afford the minimum cost for a SIM to share in someone else's phone. Movirtu has produced a cloud-based, login account... Read more »
June 23, 2011
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Africa's broadcast and film sectors continue to grow. There are more channels, more local content and a growing professionalism. Read more »
June 20, 2011
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Triple Play (voice, Internet and TV) offers are a good way for those in Africa with fixed networks to add revenues. Read more »
June 12, 2011
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Africa: Satellite Companies Pitch DTH As a Solution to Meeting the Digital Broadcast Transition Deadline
The ITU deadline agreed by most African countries for the transition from analogue to digital broadcasting is only four years away. Elsewhere in the world, the transition has taken... Read more »
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