Policy and Regulatory
Africa Analysis is a Research and Analysis Consulting House. Since our inception in 2002, we have completed numerous projects in the ICT and xTech sectors across the African markets.
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Africa Analysis is a Research and Analysis Consulting House. Since our inception in 2002, we have completed numerous projects in the ICT and xTech sectors across the African markets.
In some instances we have worked in association with specialists in larger legal teams. We have completed assignments across Africa and thus have worked across different legal jurisdictions.
Africa Analysis was commissioned to undertaken a regulatory impact assessment of the implementation of local loop unbundling across 15 countries. The project required the that we assess the impact that local loop unbundling had on the broadband wholesale and retail markets. We interviewed various national regulators and telecommunications operators to gain an understanding how their view of the impact of local loop unbundling on their operations and the wider market. The work was supported through detail analysis of the market performance before and after the introduction the regulations. We analysed the regulatory impact on pricing, adoption of broadband and the growth in wider availability of broadband.
Africa Analysis in partnership with a specialist consulting house, undertook the spectrum valuation of the 700MHz, 800MHz and 2.6GHz bands along with an assessment of how the spectrum allocation via an auction should be structured.
The project required an international review of spectrum allocation processes (various auction formats and allocation processes), the structure of spectrum lots, the spectrum valuation and the recommended process by which the national regulatory authority should award spectrum.
The objective of this project was to provide our client with a concise comparative analysis of the various regulatory regimes across the SADC countries. The output of the study enabled our client to understand how the various regulatory regimes varied across the SADC countries. Africa Analysis established a regulatory assessment mode that was used to analyse the regulatory regime in each country against a predefined regulatory template. The analysis against the template allowed the strengths and weaknesses of each regime to be identified and analysed.
