Spectrum Auctions: Lessons Learned From Around the World - Karen WregeResearch ICT Africa
The following presentation was given to Karen Wrege at a South Africa Connect public seminar, organised by Research ICT Africa and the Shuttleworth Foundation
Public Hearing On Termination Rates Portfolio Comittee On CommunicationsResearch ICT Africa
On the 14th of October 2009, Alison Gillwald and Dr. Christoph Stork of Research ICT Africa gave the following presentation at the Public Hearing on Termination Rates hosted by the Portfolio Committee on Communication of the South African Parliament
Like consumers across the globe, African mobile subscribers have been paying extortionately high charges to make and receive calls when communicating outside of their country of origin, using their domestic mobile service.
This is despite the so called “death of distance” and even when countries were contiguous and the cost of calls could not be very different from the costs of local termination.
This presentation describes the "end of roaming" initiative launched in when 2006 Celtel launched the One Network, a single service across the three East African countries charged at the local rate of origin when travelling in any of the other two countries.
The presentation provides lessons learned, and an overview of the policy and regulatory challenges and opportunities entailed.
Spectrum Auctions: Lessons Learned From Around the World - Karen WregeResearch ICT Africa
The following presentation was given to Karen Wrege at a South Africa Connect public seminar, organised by Research ICT Africa and the Shuttleworth Foundation
Public Hearing On Termination Rates Portfolio Comittee On CommunicationsResearch ICT Africa
On the 14th of October 2009, Alison Gillwald and Dr. Christoph Stork of Research ICT Africa gave the following presentation at the Public Hearing on Termination Rates hosted by the Portfolio Committee on Communication of the South African Parliament
Like consumers across the globe, African mobile subscribers have been paying extortionately high charges to make and receive calls when communicating outside of their country of origin, using their domestic mobile service.
This is despite the so called “death of distance” and even when countries were contiguous and the cost of calls could not be very different from the costs of local termination.
This presentation describes the "end of roaming" initiative launched in when 2006 Celtel launched the One Network, a single service across the three East African countries charged at the local rate of origin when travelling in any of the other two countries.
The presentation provides lessons learned, and an overview of the policy and regulatory challenges and opportunities entailed.