Long wait for India’s Telecom Act highlights gap between tech advances and legislation

Google’s in-app payment policies are once again under scrutiny from India’s competition authorities.

Not surprisingly perhaps, the pace of technological change is forcing governments to move quickly – or to try to move quickly – to keep up, as indicated by recent news from India.

Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council (FEC), one of the three arms of government that conduct the affairs of the country at the federal level, has approved two major initiatives to advance Nigeria’s digital economy: the Nigeria Universal Communication Ac…