Today we have near-universal availability of the Internet, with over 3 billion users in some 200 countries worldwide. Simultaneously the mobile phone, with some 7.1 billion subscriptions globally by the end of 2015, has become the most widely used communications device in the world, the access...

This paper examines regulatory governance in the context of African telecommunications. Though there is already a substantial literature devoted to the regulatory practices in developing countries, it generally conceptualizes the quality of regulation as an exogenous policy variable that affects...