New music streaming service Mziiki, which is focused on providing access to African artists, is set to launch in South Africa early next year after already having debuted in 12 other markets on the continent. Focused on providing music fans with access to both independent musicians and those
DStv operator MultiChoice has debuted “remote recording”, allowing its subscribers to go online to set recordings on their personal video recorder (PVR) set-top boxes remotely. At the same time, the broadcaster, which is owned by JSE-listed
Cell C’s urgent application to take down a banner referring to them as “the most useless service provider in SA” was about revenge, the high court in Johannesburg heard on Wednesday. “What this is about is revenge and reprisal,” Shem Symon
The banner calling Cell C the most useless service provider in South Africa is defamatory to the point of unlawfulness, the high court in Johannesburg heard on Wednesday. In an urgent application before judge Sharise Weiner, Christopher Whittcutt, for Cell C, argued the banner was a defamatory
SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala on Wednesday lost her court bid to halt a parliamentary inquiry into whether she lied about her qualifications. “Order for relief [is] refused,” said Western Cape high court judge Elizabeth Baartman in a judgment that lasted only a few seconds. Baartman did not
Kenya has become the third African country after Zambia and Tanzania to get the Facebook-led Internet.org application, giving Airtel customers in that country zero-rated access to a range of services, including Facebook, Wikipedia, Daily Nation, SuperSport and BBC News. Speaking at the opening keynote
Facebook and other so-called over-the-top service providers cannot put propositions on the table that are not profitable for mobile operators and doing so would be “contrary to our goal”. That’s the view of Chris Daniels, who heads Internet.org, the Facebook-led initiative to bring affordable Internet
As the debate over so-called over-the-top (OTT) service providers such as WhatsApp and Facebook continues to rage in the mobile telecommunications industry, MTN South Africa CEO Ahmad Farroukh has called for “balanced cooperation” between operators and OTT players. Farroukh says in a statement
If your business does not have a solid online presence, you will lose out to your competitors when potential customers cannot find your services online. Fortunately, building a simple website to give your business a voice is not
South Africa’s mobile operators argue that so-called over-the-top (OTT) service providers, and especially WhatsApp, are skimming their voice revenues. They claim the business model used by these OTT providers – companies such as Google, Facebook and, yes, WhatsApp – is unfair. European
