MultiChoice will hike the price of some DStv bouquets on 1 April, but the increases have been kept well below inflation as the broadcaster battles weak consumer spending and rivalry from online streaming platforms.
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Just three months after Google launched its free public Wi-Fi initiative, known as Google Station, in South Africa, the Internet giant is backing out of the business worldwide.
The CEO of the R1-billion East London electronics factory that faces closure has blamed the husband of communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams for the company’s woes.
A major electronics manufacturing facility in East London, which until recently made decoders for MultiChoice, faces possible liquidation after it reportedly failed to make repayments on a R200-million loan.
It was a busy news year in South Africa’s technology industry, with demand for reliable and quality news and analysis about the local ICT sector clearly evidenced in TechCentral’s readership growth.
The police have arrested an individual in Cape Town suspected of illegally selling pirate Internet streaming devices and online content subscriptions.
There is a “pretty good” chance that MultiChoice Group will launch its standalone “dishless” streaming product by the end of its financial year in March 2020, the company said on Thursday.
MultiChoice Group and Dimension Data decided to liquidate Vast Networks, South Africa’s largest public Wi-Fi hotspot provider, after several attempts to sell the business fell through.
Long-serving MultiChoice Group director Imtiaz Patel will relinquish his executive duties in September 2020, the pay-television broadcaster said on Tuesday.