info: Volume 14 Issue 4
Table of contents - Special Issue: Connectivity and convergence: the uneven story of Africa
Guest Editors: Alison Gillwald
The mobile termination rate debate in Africa
Christoph StorkThis 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 MoyoThis 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 RohmanThis 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. MitullahUse 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 MetfulaThis 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…