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JPMorgan development arm seeks to fund vaccine supply chain By Tom Arnold Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - JPMorgan's development finance institution which aims to fund more than $100 billion in activities per year is looking to back more supply chain deals to help fight COVID-19 in developing countries, a bank executive told Reuters. Some emerging markets such as India have struggled with supplies of vaccines and other medical equipment in the wake of the pandemic. "We'd like to do more transactions that have development and impact at their heart," said Faheen Allibhoy, managing director of th...

Safaricom gets boost as top firms snub Ethiopia bid Summary The fact that only two bids were made has narrowed the agency’s options and the bidding process could be reopened, especially if the financial offers fall below the government’s targets. While both Safaricom and MTN have substantial financial backing, they have emphasised that they will not overpay for the Ethiopian licences. Wednesday April 28 2021 By VICTOR JUMA Summary The fact that only two bids were made has narrowed the agency’s options and the bidding process could be reopened, especially if the financial offers fall bel...

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The report found that 15 years of spectrum withholding harmed consumers, particularly the poor, and that failed digital migration meant that even after the delayed spectrum auction, carriers would be unable to fully use the 700 and 800 MHz “digital dividend” spectrum until 2023.

Leon Louw Government’s plan to create a wholesale open-access network, or Woan, “will serve no useful purpose” and could, in fact, harm consumers – the exact opposite of what it’s meant to achieve. This is a key finding in a new “socioeconomic impact assessment”, or SEIA, produced by the Free Market Foundation (FMF) and published on Tuesday. The SEIA report argues that it is a mistake to try to impose competition through such a mechanism and suggests that the Woan project is the product of “believers in Marxian economics” who find it “torturous” that MTN and Vodacom stil...