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African Telecommunications Infrastructure in 2023

Welcome to the 10th annual review of telecommunications infrastructure development in Africa. Ten years is a bit of a milestone and perhaps a period worthy of some reflection, so for each section I’ll take a look back to 2014 and see what has changed. I think if anything has characterised...

/ 10 January 2024

Starlink and Inequality

Une version française de cet article est disponible ici grâce aux efforts de Vincent Roger-Machart.Uma versão em português deste artigo está disponível aqui graças ao Nupef. Who could say no to a project that promises internet access for everyone? Starlink, a global Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation, has dominated...

/ 6 November 2023

A Game of Stones

In 2019, the World Bank estimated that it would cost US $100 billion to achieve broadband access for all in Africa. While efforts to understand the cost of connectivity investment are noble, they have the unfortunate side effect of making one think of the challenge as a monolithic problem; that...

/ 20 January 2023

Africa Telecoms Infrastructure in 2022

Welcome to the 9th annual review of telecommunications infrastructure development in Africa. This edition containing links to over 390 articles covering a range of African telecom infrastructure development issues.

/ 5 January 2023
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Saving TVWS

How do technologies die? There is no announcement of their demise. Like Homer Simpson, they simply fade back into the bushes. Acronyms like ISDN and WiMAX used to dominate telecoms news headlines but today you would never know they existed. Billions of dollars have been spent on technologies that never...

/ 8 March 2022