Assessment of the Digital Market in Croatia – World Bank report
Project designed to evaluate Croatia’s digital ecosystem, identify infrastructure and policy gaps, and propose strategic interventions to support digital transformation and EU fund utilization. The challenge Croatia sought to accelerate its digital transformation but faced persistent gaps in infrastructure, outdated regulatory frameworks, underutilized EU funding opportunities, and limited private sector investment.A comprehensive, evidence-based assessment of […]
Royalty Economic Impact Analysis on Omantel
Omantel faced a significant increase in royalty and annual spectrum charges, combined with existing licence fees and taxes. This raised uncertainty around the company’s long-term financial obligations and the potential impact on its competitiveness and investment capacity within the region. The challenge Omantel needed clarity on how rising regulatory charges would affect its financial position, […]
Regulatory reform and policy development in the ICT sector
CITRA sought to liberalise Kuwait’s telecommunications market by modernising the regulatory environment and introducing competition safeguards. The project required the development of licensing regimes, competition frameworks, and quality-of-service standards to enable a fully liberalised market. The challenge CITRA needed a complete redesign of its regulatory instruments to govern a newly liberalised market. This included establishing […]
Oman Broadband Company (OBC) Strategy and Design Project
Project outline The main challenge of this assignment was to support the creation of Oman Broadband Company (OBC) by developing a comprehensive strategy, organizational framework, and business model while addressing complex regulatory and commercial requirements. The project required designing a scalable network for urban, suburban, and rural areas, integrating existing government fiber assets, forecasting demand, […]
Madagascar Digital Assessment
Project designed to evaluate Madagascar’s telecommunications market, identify reform opportunities, and support inclusive digital development through evidence-based policy and investment guidance. The challenge Madagascar faced major barriers to digital development, including limited broadband adoption, high market inefficiencies, weak last-mile coverage, and regulatory constraints.The International Finance Corporation required a comprehensive market assessment to understand supply and […]
Study on advancing universal broadband access
The challenge Botswana faced persistent obstacles to achieving universal internet access, including weak competition, affordability issues, limited infrastructure in underserved regions, and misaligned regulatory and policy frameworks. The World Bank sought a focused assessment to understand market gaps and identify high-impact reforms to expand access and improve affordability. Project outline Evaluated the scalability and impact […]
Telecommunications sector reform and advancing universal broadband access
The challenge Namibia faced structural barriers that limited universal broadband access, including coverage gaps, affordability constraints, and weaknesses in service quality. The World Bank required an evidence-based assessment to identify bottlenecks across the telecom sector and propose actionable reforms to enhance competition, strengthen service delivery, and expand access to underserved and unserved areas. Project outline […]
Assessment of the impacts of investments and policy reforms in the digital sector
The challenge Tajikistan needed to understand how planned investments and policy reforms would shape the future of its digital sector. Policymakers required clarity on infrastructure gaps, market dynamics, regulatory constraints, and socioeconomic implications, ensuring that future projects would be viable, equitable, and supportive of inclusive digital development. Project outline Assessed the broadband service value chain, […]
Pre-feasibility study for international broadband redundancy options for Yemen
The challenge Years of conflict have severely weakened Yemen’s international connectivity. Existing submarine cable infrastructure is vulnerable, redundancy is minimal, and resilience is almost non-existent. Regulatory bottlenecks, outdated infrastructure, and geopolitical constraints further limit investment and restrict the country’s ability to secure reliable global internet access. Yemen needed a clear strategy to strengthen resilience in […]
Assessment of Radio Access as a Service (Raas) Deployment in East Africa
East African countries required a structured assessment to understand opportunities, risks, and regulatory barriers for RaaS and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) deployments. IFC sought clarity on market conditions, commercial models, and investment risks to support optimised mobile network and rural connectivity strategies. The challenge East African markets faced limited RaaS and FWA deployment due to […]