On TalkCentral this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der berg talk about government’s spectrum policy direction to communications regulator Icasa.
MultiChoice Group’s video-on-demand service, Showmax, has been launched in Nigeria with local content and naira-based pricing.
MultiChoice-owned Showmax is adding Bafana Bafana Afcon football matches to its live-streaming sports offering, stepping up the pressure on rival Netflix in the South African market.
The decline in the number of subscribers to DStv Premium accelerated slightly in the year to March 2019 and MultiChoice is actively looking at ways to stem the erosion.
MultiChoice reported a strong set of full-year results on Tuesday, with good growth coming from its lower-tier pay-television bouquets, although its DStv Premium segment remains under pressure.
MultiChoice Group-owned video streaming platform Showmax will offer live sports to all customers in South Africa, effective immediately, it said on Friday.
In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about some of the highlights from MWC 2019, including Huawei’s foldable phone and Energizer’s insane battery phone.
MultiChoice Group soared 16% in debut trading in Johannesburg as the pan-African pay-TV company embarks on a new era of independence following a spin off by technology giant Naspers.
MultiChoice won’t hike the price of DStv Premium in 2019, reflecting the pressure the pay-television broadcaster is under at the top end of the market.
MultiChoice will carry losses incurred by Showmax in the “medium term”, but the goal is eventually for the streaming television service to turn a profit once broadband infrastructure in South Africa and the rest of the continent has been built out further to support it.