Communications and broadcasting
Overview
We work with governments and regulators to cut through the complexities of digital markets and ensure that digital policy and regulation are fit for purpose, striking the optimal balance between intervention and innovation. Our work includes all aspects of governance and economic regulation including competition, digital rights, data protection and privacy, consumer protection, e-commerce, economic structure and digital trade.
Projects
Icasa employs Genesis to sharpen SA telecoms competition
Genesis Analytics has been retained by ICASA to assist with their Priority Market Study to identify telecommunications key markets that are not characterised by effective competition and may require regulatory intervention to ensure that the goals of the National Development Plan can be met.
Financial model sets new mobile termination rates
‘Termination rates’ are the prices telecommunications operators pay each other to terminate calls originating on each other’s networks (for example, when an MTN customer calls a Vodacom customer, MTN pays a termination fee to Vodacom). For a variety of pro-competitive reasons, regulators around the world set these rates equal to the costs operators incur to provide termination services to each other.
Creative content can drive more inclusive supply chain
Genesis was asked by a pan-African television and media company to design a more inclusive supply-chain strategy. This request came at a time of major disruption in the TV industry: entry of new competitors like Netflix, new platforms like internet and mobile TV, new technology like AI, and rapidly changing consumer habits.
Assessment of damages in R1-billion claim
Genesis provided an independent assessment of the appropriate damages quantum following the repudiation of an agreement between two large South African companies in the communications sector. The analysis was performed on behalf of the defendant in a claim that exceeded R1-billion.
Expert advice in contested Media24 print merger
Genesis was retained to assess the effects of the proposed move from joint to sole control of the Natal Witness publishing group by Media24, which had evoked substantial opposition from other media groups involved in community newspaper publishing.
Expert advice on Vodacom-Neotel merger
Genesis was contracted by the Competition Commission of South Africa as expert economic advisers in the assessment of a proposed merger between Vodacom South Africa, the largest mobile network operator in the country, and Neotel, the country’s second national fixed-line operator.
Related Focus Areas
Photographer, Johnny MillerEconomic Growth and Impact
A transformation is underway across Africa’s economies.
In the Economic Growth & Impact practice, our purpose is to grow Africa’s economy for Africa by designing and delivering inclusive, sustainable growth. We place flourishing societies and healthy ecosystems at the foundation of economic progress, not as an afterthought.
We see economic growth as one of the most powerful forces for improving lives at scale. When businesses, governments, and institutions work together beyond narrow mandates and embrace impact as a core driver of value, they unlock new pathways for jobs, opportunity, resilience, and long-term prosperity across the continent.
This is a whole new way of thinking about business. It needs new business philosophies, models and strategies, new functions, and new ways of measuring and talking about corporate impact. In addition, the relationship between corporates and the state requires careful navigation to be a constructive partnership, and for companies to be a bulwark against nationalist and populist politics.
Applied behavioural economics
Behavioural economics is a powerful field that combines economics and psychology to influence behaviour and improve decision-making for the better through low-cost, high-impact, easy-to-implement interventions. Genesis Analytics created the first team of consultants in Africa in 2014 to use a scientific understanding of human behaviour to solve practical problems in the world of business.
Competition economics
As the leading provider of competition economics services in Africa, Genesis Analytics has an unmatched breadth and depth of skills and experience. Blue-chip companies across Africa routinely rely on us for expert advice and support when they interact with competition authorities. We also work extensively with regulators and competition authorities, giving us a position of trust based on a strong reputation for providing robust and independent expert economic views.