Zambia’s telecommunications regulator, Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (Zicta), has laid criminal charges against all three of the country’s mobile network operators for “failure to meet minimum standards of quality of service”. The operators are MTN, Airtel
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Two broadcasters, both perceived to be sympathetic to president Jacob Zuma and his government, are set to launch 24-hour news satellite channels on the same continent-wide MultiChoice DStv platform. Broadcasting sources confirmed to the Mail & Guardian this week that the SABC is back in discussions
Sentech has shut down the signals that allowed people in South Africa’s neigbouring countries to receive free-to-air broadcasts from the SABC and e.tv using a range of cheap, imported decoders. The decoders were able to pick up Sentech’s satellite broadcasts from its Vivid service because the signals were
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Free-to-air broadcasters SABC and e.tv are up in arms after an audit found the viewership figures provided by the South African Audience Research Foundation (Saarf) in recent years were allegedly inaccurate. The broadcasters claim this has cost them hundreds of millions of rand in lost advertising
The SABC has filled six vacancies in its executive management, the public broadcaster said on Thursday. “It has become imperative for the organisation, as it is steadily becoming financially stable, to complement this with individuals who will bring immense value as we take the SABC forward,” spokesman
Digital terrestrial television must be “affordable” for consumers and the “significant market power” of broadcasting signal distributor Sentech must be addressed with “pro-competitive remedies”, says the company’s regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa). Icasa
Communications minister Dina Pule said on Thursday that she had instructed the top management of state-owned enterprises that fell under the department’s control that they had to report to her at least once a month in future to update her on progress made. This was a departure
The SABC invested more than R700m in local content last year, according to a report. Communications minister Dina Pule released the figures on how much the SABC spent on local content in a written reply to a parliamentary question by Congress of the People MP Juli Killian. It showed that documentaries