MultiChoice has announced a new upgrade for its high-end DStv Explora personal video recorder (PVR) satellite decoder. A new software update, which will be delivered automatically from 15 September to all active Explora PVR decoders, promises improvements to
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After more than a month of no load shedding, Eskom on Monday evening announced that it would implement stage 1 load shedding between 7pm and 10pm “due to loss of generating units”. News of the blackouts comes after the power utility warned on
Cell C and Vodacom are both pumping hundreds of millions of rand into their networks in the Western Cape to enhance coverage to the province’s residents. Cell C said on Wednesday that it intends
Hong Kong-based telecommunications company PCCW is planning to launch a video-on-demand service, possibly as early as next week, that will challenge the recently launched ShowMax
Global Internet payments platform PayPal will now allow South African consumers to return goods purchased using the service, for free. The launch of the PayPal Refunded Return service follows the
All Western Cape schools will have free, high-speed access to the Internet by the end of 2016, the province’s premier, Helen Zille, said on Tuesday. Zille said the plan is to use the access to offer e-learning to pupils to improve both literacy and numeracy and
Standard Bank has launched a new service that will allow its high-value clients to interact with a team of bankers 24 hours a day using instant messaging. The platform has been
MTN is starting its first fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) deployments in the Western Cape, it said on Friday. It has begun trenching in Fresnaye and Bakoven, where it intends connecting a thousand homes by year-end. It’s the first time that MTN has expanded its FTTH network
Shareholders in MultiChoice’s broad-based black economic empowerment scheme Phuthuma Nathi are set for a windfall. They will receive R1,2bn in ordinary dividends in 2015, an increase from
Following Telkom’s decision to introduce a wholesale 1Mbit/s ADSL Internet product at less than R50/month, Internet service provider MWeb has debuted an uncapped ADSL solution that costs R79/month. The MWeb product, which excludes ADSL subscription fees and mandatory