-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Fibre-for-africa] South Africa - Another instance where privatization trumped liberalization Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:24:48 -0400 From: Steve Song <ssong@idrc.ca> Reply-To: APC - Private list for use by EASSY Workshop Participants <fibre-for-africa@lists.apc.org> Organization: IDRC To: 'Private list for use by EASSY Workshop Participants' <fibre-for-africa@lists.apc.org> Hi all, I see that a journal article by Willie Currie and Robert Horwitz in Telecommunications Policy entitled "Another instance where privatization trumped liberalization: The politics of telecommunications reform in South Africa-A ten-year retrospective" has been written up in Business Report (http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3998638) and then Slashdotted at http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/26/1642210. Looks like a damning summary of how *not* to stimulate investment and competition in the telecom sector. We all knew South Africa was an awful example but it is chilling to have 10 years of greed, incompetence, and mismanagement laid out so starkly. -Steve P.S. While we are on the topic of *access*, I see that the actual journal article is not available on the web. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1282573.1282768 Obviously not Open Access but perhaps the authors were allowed to self-archive? Willie? -- Steve Song <ssong@idrc.ca> Manager ICT4D Africa Programs http://www.connectivityafrica.org http://www.idrc.ca/acacia International Development Research Centre Tel. +1 613 236 6163 x2268 Mobile: +1 613 302 8233 Skype: steve_l_song _______________________________________________ Fibre-for-africa mailing list Fibre-for-africa@lists.apc.org http://lists.apc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fibre-for-africa