Author: Duncan McLeod

The decline in the number of subscribers to DStv Premium accelerated slightly in the year to March 2019 and MultiChoice is actively looking at ways to stem the erosion.

MultiChoice reported a strong set of full-year results on Tuesday, with good growth coming from its lower-tier pay-television bouquets, although its DStv Premium segment remains under pressure.

In the podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg discuss the new department of communications & digital technologies – is it more of the same, or will it be the “department of action”?

The merged departments of communications and telecommunications & postal services will in future be known as the department of communications & digital technologies.

Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub took home 23.9% less in the 2019 financial year after he earned significantly less from short- and long-term incentives.

JSE-listed technology group Alviva Holdings said on Friday that has reached an agreement to acquire 70% of business software specialist Synerg Group.

Dimension Data and MultiChoice Group-owned Vast Networks and mobile operator Vodacom are advancing a pilot project to test offloading of the latter’s traffic onto the former’s Wi-Fi network infrastructure.

China’s Hisense is making strong headway in the entry-level and midrange smartphone segments in South Africa, and is eyeing at least 10% market share, in volume terms, by the end of the year.

The University of the Witwatersrand and IBM have formed a partnership to bring quantum computing to Africa as part of the US technology giant’s efforts to expand the technology around the world.

MultiChoice will report a full-year headline loss per share of as much as R3.90, from earnings of R4.10 a year ago, as the result of foreign exchange losses and a decision to give additional equity to black investors at no cost.