Telecommunications Sector Performance Reviews 2009/2010
South African Telecommunication Sector Performance Review 12
Towards Evidence-based ICT Policy and Regulation - Vol 2 Paper 6 - 2010
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| The South African telecoms sector has been in flux over the last decade from a policy and regulatory perspective. Sub-optimal outcomes after the first phase of reform saw the partial privatisation of the incumbent and the entry of a third mobile operator. In the second phase another national fixed-line operator entered the market and the market was further liberalised through the enactment of the Electronic Communications Act in 2005. This was hailed as legislation that unshackled the market constraints and enabled the optimisation of a converged environment. But the anticipated opening up of the market has been hampered by a number of legal and regulatory bottlenecks. Download the paper
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Namibian Telecommunication Sector Performance Review Towards Evidence-based ICT Policy and Regulation - Vol 2 Paper 7 - 2010
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| Since the last ICT sector performance review of 2006, much has happened in Namibia for the better. The country now has three mobile operators, a single ministry in charge of policy for the sector, new policies, a new Act, and it should soon have a new strong and more independent regulator. Many challenges remain however. Telecom Namibia will need to change course and focus on profitability or face the risk of becoming another indebted state-owned enterprise (SOE) with dwindling significance for Namibia's telecommunication sector.
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Dr Alison Gillwald joins GSB in quest to develop ICT in Africa
Friday, 30 July 2010 13:54
 | Alison Gillwald has been appointed as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Cape Town - Graduate School of Business. Gillwald's role will be aligned primarily with the work of the Management Programme in Infrastructure Reform and Regulation (MIR) programme at the Graduate School of Business, and it will focus on building ICT research, policy and regulatory capacity in Africa. Her work will help further develop the GSB as a leading business school in research and teaching on emergent economies. |
CPRafrica on Chakula - Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
Thursday, 08 July 2010 12:32
| The latest issue of CHAKULA (Issue No. 19, July 2010), the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) newsletter features CPRafrica and e-interviews with the main speakers of the conference. Research ICT Africa director Alison Gillwald comments on the need for competitive research for policy influence and the e-interview with Christoph Stork, senior research at Research ICT Africa, is about mobile termination benchmarking. The issue carried e-interviews also with Rohan Samarajiva, Lirneasia CEO, Muriuki Mureithi, independent ICT consultant, and Indra de Lanerolle, adjunct Lecturer at the University of Witwatersrand. Read the newsletter. |
Gillwald comments the draft regulations on interconnection in South Africa
Monday, 28 June 2010 08:18
| Alison Gillwald comments on the process of public participation on the draft regulations about the call termination rates in South Africa.
Read the article in Brainstorm Magazine.. |
