Telkom has sent its customers a newsletter with their bills this month in which it tries to rubbish the uncapped broadband offerings introduced by MWeb and other service providers. Instead, it shows how Telkom is still stuck in the past. The newsletter article — headlined “Broadband: put a cap on it!” — doesn’t once
Telkom has hit back at the introduction by MWeb and other Internet service providers of uncapped broadband, accusing rivals of “not delivering on their promise”. In a newsletter sent out to Telkom subscribers with their monthly bills this month, the incumbent fixed-line operator climbs into its competitors without naming
Is a price war looming in the local Web hosting market? It appears that big changes may be coming that…
Naspers-owned Internet service provider MWeb has launched its own “self-provisioned” wireless network, offering uncapped wireless access aimed at business users…
Pay-TV operator MultiChoice has taken the next step forward in an unfolding strategy to provide its content across a range of platforms with its launch on Wednesday of a free video on-demand service for subscribers to its DStv Premium bouquet
MWeb wants all SA Internet providers to enter into open bilateral peering relationships to allow the free exchange of Internet…
Right, so this whole “uncapped” and “Free the Web” stuff has me a little vexed. Basically I think it is all a bit disingenuous, even bordering on manipulative. While Seacom opened the floodgates last year with falling prices for international bandwidth, the reality is that the Telkom
A full-blown price war has erupted in fixed-line broadband in SA. Internet service providers are racing to outdo each other to provide unmetered bandwidth cheaper. This is great for consumers and the economy, but it should have happened 10 years ago.
Your hosts this week are Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle. And what a week it was on the technology news front in SA, what with MWeb introducing SA’s first (relatively) affordable uncapped broadband packages and MultiChoice rival On Digital Media taking the wraps off TopTV
On Tuesday afternoon, Internet service provider Afrihost announced it was leaping feet first into SA’s rapidly escalating fixed-line broadband price…
