Despite intense pressure from broadcasters, communications minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni appears adamant that analogue TV will be switched off this week.
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The SABC board on Friday labelled government’s plan to switch off analogue television broadcasts on 31 March as an “unsustainable risk” to the rights of millions of indigent South African households.
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse said the state-owned company is trying to ram through a “massive” contract for set-top box installations. Sentech has denied the allegations.
Netflix has told the South African Investment Conference that it plans to invest R900-million in local content production over the next two years.
MultiChoice has increased prices for monthly subscriptions in Nigeria by at least 14%, after this month’s settlement with Nigerian tax authorities.
South African technology entrepreneur Vinny Lingham has a new venture, and he believes it could serve as the antidote to boring Zoom meetings.
MultiChoice Group, seeking to end the practice of password sharing on its DStv streaming service, has begun enforcing a new rule that limits streaming to one device at a time.
Google, one of the few American corporate giants still operating in Russia, is poised to lose one of its biggest footholds in the country.
A push by US politicians to regulate digital app stores has pitted Apple and Google against Microsoft and others in a showdown of some of the world’s biggest technology companies.
Netflix is testing features including one that will allow accounts to be shared outside members’ households at an extra cost.