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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
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
South Africa’s migration from analogue to digital terrestrial television looks set for yet more delays if an open letter, signed by MultiChoice, and published in weekend newspapers, is anything to go by. The letter, in the form of full-page advertisements, lays into communications minister Yunus Carrim, saying his
Communications regulator Icasa this week kicked off a high-level formal inquiry into the state of competition in South Africa’s information and communications technology sector. In the coming months, the authority, which regulates the telecommunications, broadcasting and postal services sectors, has promised
Shares in JSE-listed technology and media group Naspers took a battering on Friday as investors turned sour on Tencent, the fast-growing Chinese communications and e-commerce company that owns chat programs WeChat and QQ. Reuters reported that Naspers’s shares were off by their biggest one-day
Yolisa Phahle has been named as the new CEO of M-Net South Africa, parent company MultiChoice said on Thursday. Phahle is currently director for local interest channels at M-Net. She joined the group in 2005 as GM of Channel O. In 2009, she was appointed as director
Communications minister Yunus Carrim has lashed out at mobile operators MTN and Vodacom for taking communications regulator Icasa to court over its final regulations governing mobile call termination rates, saying the industry’s inability to reach consensus was holding
MultiChoice, which owns pay-television service DStv, has announced new prices for the year ahead. The new rates including an above-inflation 6,4% increase in the monthly cost of DStv Premium, the operator’s top-end bouquet. The price of the cheaper and fast-growing