Pay-TV competition? What pay-TV competition? Naspers-owned MultiChoice grew its SA subscriber base by 450 000 to 2,8m homes in the 2010 financial year. And it added 1,1m new subscribers in other African markets. SA consumers, it would appear, weren’t tempted to put off their purchasing decisions until after the May launch of On Digital Media’s TopTV, the first direct competitor to MultiChoice
Browsing: Naspers
SA’s newest pay-TV operator On Digital Media (ODM), which owns TopTV, plans to add new channels and possibly even new…
Interested broadcasters have been given three weeks by the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) to apply for licences to…
Ongoing regulatory delays mean it is unlikely that South Africans will be able to watch the 2010 soccer World Cup…
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
MWeb dropped a bombshell on the SA Internet industry on Thursday morning when it announced it was slashing the cost of fixed-line broadband and introducing uncapped offerings starting at just R219/month. The move, which brings SA more in line with Internet prices in other markets, could spark a price war among Internet service providers in the next few months.
Online retailer, Naspers-owned Kalahari.net, has pipped rival, Avusa subsidiary Exclusive Books, to the post to be the first SA company…
Good news for SA consumers who don’t have access to satellite pay-TV is that the country is set to get…
SA media giant Naspers is reportedly in talks with Time Warner’s AOL with a view to acquiring the struggling US…
Big changes in management are on the cards at Naspers-controlled pay-TV operator MultiChoice, TechCentral has learnt. Jim Volkwyn, head of…