info: Volume 14 Issue 4

The mobile termination rate debate in Africa

Christoph Stork

This paper aims to demonstrate that call termination is not one side of a two‐sided market and that a “waterbed effect” does not exist for calling‐party's‐network‐pays (CPNP…

Investment models and regulatory constraints for broadband backbone roll‐out in selected African countries

Enrico Calandro, Mpho Moyo

This paper seeks to identify policy and regulatory bottlenecks that need to be overcome in order to stimulate private sector investment in backbone networks in selected African…

Will telecommunications development improve the quality of life in African countries?

Ibrahim Kholilul Rohman

This study aims to measure quality of life (QOL) at the individual level in African countries in relation to the accessibility of mobile phones and the internet. QOL is proxied by…

Factors influencing usage of new technologies in low‐income households in Kenya: the case of Nairobi

Margaret Nyambura Ndung'u, Timothy Mwololo Waema, Winnie V. Mitullah

Use of e‐mail, the internet and mobile phones, collectively referred to as the “new technologies” in this paper, is influenced by various factors in low‐income households. These…

The South African Broadband Policy: in the eyes of the media

Wallace Chigona, Johannes Willem Vergeer, Andile Simphiwe Metfula

This study aims to analyse how the media plays its role in the information communications technology (ICT) debate in a developing country context, by way of analysing the media…

Guest editorial

Alison Gillwald

Licence issue and transparency: reprise

Peter Curwen