Revenue forecasts for communication service providers in the African and Middle East (AME) growth markets remain bleak, with projections of continued stagnation for a minimum of three years. According to Ovum, the AME mobile
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The television entertainment industry in South Africa is in for significant disruption in the next 18 months. And couch potatoes look set to be the biggest beneficiaries as competition intensifies between traditional broadcasters and new Internet streaming providers
The world’s global means of communication, emoji, has just been promoted. The ubiquitous smileys, winks and love hearts are about to make it out of the smartphones in our pockets and onto the silver
Mobile operators and Internet service providers could have their licences revoked by communications regulator Icasa if they fail to comply with new legislation being developed to govern online censorship in South Africa. In a statement issued on Thursday
The National Consumer Commission (NCC) has launched a full-scale investigation into mobile networks’ price increases for contract subscribers. Major networks Vodacom and MTN announced increases to cellular contract tariffs earlier this year
Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko has reportedly said that at the right price, the company would consider an offer to buy mobile network operator Cell C. This is according to Reuters, which quotes Maseko as saying that Cell C is an “interesting proposition”
A bit of search engine manipulation has provided insight into the content that Naspers’s soon-to-be-launched subscription video-on-demand service ShowMax will offer. Doing a Google image search against the ShowMax.com domain
Web retailer and technology giant Amazon has announced plans to open an office of Amazon Web Services in Johannesburg. The new office joins the established Amazon Development Centre in Cape Town, which has been in operation since 2004
StarSat parent On Digital Media (ODM) has no intention of withdrawing a complaint it lodged against MultiChoice in 2013 at the Competition Commission, in which it accused its rival of engaging
The double blow of a maturing voice market and a sluggish local economy has not made life easy for South Africa’s telecommunications companies. Vodacom’s revenue was up by only 2,1% to R77,3bn