Dumb pipes: Africa’s data-only LTE operators satisfying pent-up demand

Author: Ricardo Tavares
Published: 2014-12-27

A new business paradigm is being driven by the voracious demand for data in Africa – the data-only LTE operator. The business model as such is not entirely new as data-only early WiMAX deployments were competing with, or being developed due to the lack of, DSL providers. Now that WiMAX is gone, a new batch of data-centric operators with no …