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MTN has just upped the ante in the developing war with rival video-on-demand operators by announcing that it will zero-rate data usage for those streaming content on its FrontRow service. The

Hong Kong-based telecommunications company PCCW is planning to launch a video-on-demand service, possibly as early as next week, that will challenge the recently launched ShowMax

Internet streaming is a serious competitive threat to broadcast television in South Africa, but the technology is hamstrung by cost challenges, says an analyst. “There is no doubt that Internet streaming

Naspers’s new online video-on-demand platform ShowMax will have all the seasons of Game of Thrones and other top television series and movie titles at launch. It has also been confirmed that

On the same day that Naspers is set to take the wraps off its new video-on-demand service called ShowMax, another VOD player, Times Media Group’s Vidi, has claimed it’s become the first to market in

The television entertainment industry in South Africa is in for significant disruption in the next 18 months. And couch potatoes look set to be the biggest beneficiaries as competition intensifies between traditional broadcasters and new Internet streaming providers

A bit of search engine manipulation has provided insight into the content that Naspers’s soon-to-be-launched subscription video-on-demand service ShowMax will offer. Doing a Google image search against the ShowMax.com domain

ShowMax is the name of Naspers’s Netflix rival, which will be launched to the media in Johannesburg next Wednesday. That’s according to a report on the entertainment news website Channel24, which is owned by Naspers subsidiary Media24. According