Netflix has sent the world into a frenzy of anxiety by announcing through its blog that it will be trying to restrict users to only viewing content licensed to the country where they are physically located. This effectively means stopping customers from using a variety
In the first episode of the TalkCentral podcast for 2016, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about Netlflix’s arrival in South Africa and its threat to block those using virtual private networking technology to access the US version
#ZumaMustFall dominated social media over the past week, according to media monitoring company ROi Africa. While it received 11,02% of news coverage, on social media, #ZumaMustFall took up 51,75% of the conversation on social media over the past week
If government decides to get serious about SA Connect, its wide-ranging broadband policy published two years ago, it will result in one of the largest telecommunications projects ever embarked upon
MTN’s market capitalisation is in danger of falling below that of rival Vodacom as investors continue to fret about the unprecedented fine the group is facing in Nigeria and uncertainty about its operational performance in that market and in South Africa
South Africa’s two biggest mobile networks are gearing up to attend parliamentary hearings on possible regulation of over-the-top services. Vodacom and MTN will attend hearings on 26 January at which
About 3,8bn light years away, a star has exploded with a brightness of 570bn times that of our own sun. If that fails to impress you, consider that this is almost 20 times the output
Roads agency Sanral has allegedly started texting messages to Gauteng drivers who have shunned paying their e-toll fees, telling them to pay up or face action, an anti-tolls group said on Friday
An online petition is calling on South Africa’s government to reject calls by mobile networks to regulate over-the-top services such as WhatsApp and Skype. Online women’s magazine
South Africans who use virtual private networking services to watch the US version of Netflix could soon find their access blocked. Netflix vice-president of content delivery architecture David Fullagar warned in a post on the subscription video-on-demand
