| This page is a collection of items related to my interest in telecommunications and network economics. | Hierdie bladsy versamel items wat verband hou met my belangstelling in telekommunikasie en die ekonomie van netwerke. |
Modelling availability of titles on P2P file sharing networks (talk at ITS 2010 in Tokyo, 28 June)
Media concentration in South Africa (Talk at Columbia University in NY, March 2010)
International mobile roaming – economic issues and regulation (talk at ITS 2009 in Perth WA, August 2009)
Regulatory Skirmishes in South African Telecommunications (talk in Melbourne, 2009-07-15)
Telecommunications in Mzantsi: regulation and competition (seminar in the Department of Communication Science, Unisa, co-authored by Ms MS Khosa, on 15 April 2009)
Metcalfe's Law is really right (slides for talk at ITS 2007)
Network externalities in random graph models (slides for talk at ITS 2007)
| I also write a weblog CyphAfrica which frequently deals with telecommunications issue. | Inskrywings in my webjoernaal CyphAfrica handel dikwels oor telekommunikasie of verwante kwessies. |
The study material (compiled and aggregated from various sources and revised and in part written by me) for a course Information and telecommunications regulations and trends at Unisa is available under the GnuFDL license. Please read the license carefully but it means that you may i.a. freely copy this work and that you may, under certain mild conditions, reuse the material contained in it. No guarantee is given that the versions below correspond to the actual official versions used in the course.
| Academic year | PDF version | LaTeX source | Date |
| 2010 | 2010_hcmitr6_tl101(pdf) | 2010_hcmitr6_tl101(tex) | 2009-09-22 |
| 2009 | 2009_hcmitr6_tl101(pdf) | 2009_hcmitr6_tl101(tex) | 2008-09-10 |
| 2008 | hcmitr6_TL101_v12 | hcmitr6_TL101_v12 | 2008-02-26 |
I have completed a first draft of a text on media, for South African students and am releasing it under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License which means that you may download, copy and use
An introduction to new media for South African students (draft version of October 2009, in DJVU format)
for any non-commercial purpose.
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