Media and technology group Naspers is said to be planning a video-on-demand rival to Netflix, and may be intending to announce the new service at a media conference in South Africa as early as next week. Naspers owns MultiChoice, which operates
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Depressed economy? What depressed economy? MultiChoice, which owns DStv, M-Net and SuperSport, has turned in another strong financial performance for the year ended 31 March 2015
Telkom surprised the telecommunications industry last week, announcing sweeping price cuts to its wholesale broadband services that should lead to real reductions in retail fixed-line Internet prices. The cuts – which are said to go well beyond what
A few months ago, I argued that over-the-top (OTT) service providers – companies like Facebook and Netflix – must pay network operators for using their infrastructure to deliver services to their customers. A counter-argument has been made that subscribers are already paying
South Africans do love a good moan. Whether it’s Eskom’s rolling blackouts or the state of the country’s politics, we seem to find a measure of comfort in a good old groan, whether it’s done quietly
Though MultiChoice remains strongly opposed to the use of encryption, or conditional access, for South Africa’s free-to-air digital television migration project, it has not yet decided whether it will challenge
Things used to be simple: a life with MultiChoice or a life without it. But South African television viewers will soon be spoilt for choice, even if some options are more appealing than others — and some a lot more
Times Media Group’s Vidi online video-on-demand platform is expanding its offering with a range of local television dramas, movies and children’s programming. Vidi has licensed a range
Windows, WhatsApp and Netflix top the agenda in this packed episode of TalkCentral. Your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg unpack the big Microsoft keynote, looking at the Windows 10 announcements and, of course the announcement
A spokesman for Netflix has reportedly confirmed that the online video-on-demand service will be launched in South Africa before the end of next year. This follows news on Wednesday that