UNCTAD Info Economy

Report

Chapter 6 of UNCTAD’s ‘Information Economy Report 2007-2008: Science and Technology for Development’, focusing on mobile telephony in Africa through a cross-country comparison. Building on UNCTAD’s earlier work on wireless communications and ‘m-commerce’, the chapter examines mobile telephony as the primary route to the information society for the continent’s low-income majority, reviewing the policy landscape around telecom liberalisation, new operator licensing, independent regulation and interconnection that shaped Africa’s mobile growth.