Netflix, Apple, Google and other online streaming video providers are the real threat to MultiChoice in South Africa’s subscription broadcasting industry, the pay-television operator’s CEO says. Imtiaz Patel, who heads up MultiChoice South Africa Group, tells TechCentral
Telkom’s share price leapt higher by nearly 4% on Tuesday after a positive trading update fired up investors’ appetite for the stock. At the close on Tuesday, the share was up by 3,9% at R32 after at one stage trading as high as R32,60. Telkom told shareholders that it expects its headline earnings per share
If there was any doubts that tensions were running high in South Africa’s mobile telecommunications industry, these should be put to rest after Cell C’s response to MTN’s Sunday newspaper advertisement in which it penned an open letter to its smaller rival
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Microsoft will launch its much anticipated next-generation videogame and entertainment console, the Xbox One, in South Africa in September, distributor Westcon-Comztek has announced. The launch comes almost a year after Sony introduced its next-generation
MultiChoice’s open letter to Yunus Carrim, in which it criticised government’s policy on the use of encryption in free-to-air digital terrestrial television, was “not anti-government” and was written because the pay-TV broadcaster, which owns M-Net and DStv, has
MTN Mobile Money users, who are also Ecobank customers, will soon be able to withdraw cash from Ecobank ATMs in 12 African countries, the two companies said on Monday. They will also be able to transfer money between their Mobile Money and Ecobank accounts
No court action has been taken against non-paying e-toll motorists so far, the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance said on Monday. “They have not summonsed anyone yet, otherwise we would know about it,” spokesman John Clarke said. “They ought to be doing that as they have had enough time since December
There’s a new weapon in Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s arsenal: God. Or rather, a handful of fringe church leaders claiming to represent him. In his continued fight against the public protector’s damning findings against him, the SABC acting chief operating officer has managed to rope in a few holy men who have prayed
Communications minister Yunus Carrim has accused MultiChoice and its partners of trotting out the “same old, tired issues” over digital terrestrial television and labelled the pay-television broadcaster a bullying “monopoly”. He was responding to full-page Sunday newspaper advertisements in which MultiChoice










