Mobility 2006: Paris Mashile, Complexities of regulating costs for telecommunications in South Africa

The chairperson of ICASA, Mr. Paris Mashile, addressed the opening session of the Mobility 2006 conference. Despite being accused a “loser” for delaying the introduction of mobile number portability by the current edition of Financial Mail today. His address was largely to justify state-heavy regulation within the mobile industry in favour of protecting the consumers….

 
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iWeek 2006 Summary: Lets Start The Internet Revolution

This whole week, I have been blogging the conference, indeed gaining enormous experience as a researcher and Internet Marketer. Speakers from Germany, Namibia, Belgium, Singapore, China, South Africa and other parts of the world delivered groundbreaking research presentations. The Internet in South Africa is growing at a slow pace, but progress has been made over…

 

iWeek Conference 2006: Wim Roggeman-ISPA,Society, Child Porn, racism and hate Speech.

Wim Roggeman has been the President of ISPA Belgium since 2004, which was formed in 1997. This non-profit organisation was created to promote the interests of Belgian companies providing Internet services. Its members account for 97% of all Internet connections in Belgium. ISPA Belgium publishes a quarterly market survey on the development of the Belgian…