Balancing Act (London)
Website: http://balancingact-africa.com/
September 02, 2011
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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 31, 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 »
August 26, 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 19, 2011
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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 16, 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 »
August 12, 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 05, 2011
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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 04, 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 »
July 29, 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 »
February 03, 2011
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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 »
May 15, 2009
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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 »
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