Kenya: Telecoms in Kenya - The Strange Case of the Dog That Didn't Bark

One of Africa's most interesting regulatory cases is the dominant market power study being conducted by Kenya's regulator, CAK. This week Russell Southwood looks at the detailed… Read more »

Africa: Naspers Closes Down OLX Offices in Kenya

A range of stats show that Africa's digital content and services sector has grown and African consumers are using online services more than ever before. But the continuing high… Read more »

Kenya: Kenya's Looks to Double or Triple the Number of Wi-Fi Hot-Spots in a Year

The idea of a low-cost data provider is at last beginning to find its legs. This week we look at Surf in Kenya that has expanded to offer 1,000 Wi-Fi hot-spots across 20 towns and… Read more »

Africa: IT Industry Pushes Fibre Roll-Out in Africa

Last week we carried a story about the launch of FTTH in Gabon adding another country to the list that have rolled it out. For all the talk of leapfrogging, there just some things… Read more »

Kenya: Surf Wants to Provide Cheap Wi-Fi Broadband for the "Average Consumer" in Places Where People Will Be Throughout the Day

Mark Summer and Kristin Peterson left Inveneo in September 2013 to set up a more commercially oriented version of what they had been doing: rolling out networks to unconnected… Read more »

Africa: Sliide's Free Data App Set to Roll Out in South Africa With Expansion Plans for Kenya With Safaricom and Ghana With MTN

Sliide's uses content to acquire a mobile audience that it sells to advertisers. It then passes back some of the advertising revenues as free data and airtime for users. Russell… Read more »

Kenya: Villagers Struggle for Data Access

Kenya has 96% population coverage for voice and it will not be long before it reaches near to 100%. But for data acess it's a very different story. Even close to Nairobi and within… Read more »

Kenya: Docubox Finds Funding in Innovative Ways for Documentaries With Character-Driven Storytelling

If documentary is the poor and lonely relative globally, imagine how hard it is to finance and make African documentaries. Judy Kibinge's Docubox scheme has been both fertile and… Read more »

Kenya: Solar TVs a Hit in Rural Kenya

Kenyans in rural areas are increasingly looking to buy solar TVs. Rising expectations mean that they want something similar to a Kenyan living in the city, not a downscaled product… Read more »

Kenya: M-Kopa Sells 30,000 Solar TVs in Kenya and Looks to Add Internet Access

A major constraint on the roll-out of wider TV coverage in African countries has been access to electricity. An area might have a terrestrial signal but without grid power it was… Read more »

Kenya: Inside the Operation of a Kenyan Grey Operator - Reaching Out to New Users With a Very Local Focus

In an interview with Ben Roberts, CEO of Liquid Telecom Kenya we did in mid-October he spoke of the "underground ISP market" in Kenya. At the end of October Russell Southwood… Read more »

Kenya: T Kenya's Low Cost Data Operator Poa! Internet Moves On From Soft Launch

Last May poa! Internet (formerly Argon began its soft launch in Kenya's high-profile slum district Kibera. Now the service is bedded down, it's moving to its hard launch there and… Read more »

Africa: MTV Music Awards - Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa Share Most of the Prizes

The MTV Africa Music Awards - the MAMA - and her pitching babes of Africa gave a sparkling performance in Nairobi on the 10th of October. It was a gala event that united African… Read more »

Kenya: Safaricom Edges Quietly Into the Home Space With the Big Box and Possible FTTH Option With Kenya Power

Kenya's Safaricom has taken its time positioning itself to attack the home connectivity market. But with the Big Box it's now got an improved product it feels happy with and has… Read more »

Africa: How to Get Cheaper Internet, Data Across Africa

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… Read more »