Africa's Data Future - Telecoms Regulators Need to Innovate to Get Lower Internet Access Costs

London — Africa's data and Internet communications infrastructure has improved so much in the last decade that it's easy to become complacent. The dual challenges of price and quality of service have not been overcome.

African regulators have never been good at imagining the future and with all the improvements they seem to have taken their eye off the ball. Russell Southwood looks at why things are stuck and what might get them moving again.

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