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MTN South Africa has pulled the plug on VU, its video-on-demand platform, just days before its partner that provides the service, Discover Digital, launches a new VOD offering. The service will be terminated on 3 May, MTN said. As a “gesture of goodwill

The anti-piracy squads are at it again. In the past few months, the UK government – one of the more zealous enforcers of copyright – has been responding to Kodi, the free media centre software that is fostering a wave of illegal

Naspers-owned ShowMax and mobile operator Vodacom have partnered to offer “free” data for watching shows on the video-on-demand platform. Effective immediately, ShowMax is offering three months of data, adding

Netflix and ShowMax rival Iflix, which is promising a lower-cost alternative video-on-demand service, will be launched in South Africa and six other African countries, including Kenya and Nigeria. The platform, which until now has focused

Iflix, a video streaming service with customers mostly in Southeast Asia, raised US$90m (about R1,2bn) in a round led by telecommunications giants Liberty Global and Kuwait-based Zain to take on Netflix and Naspers, which owns ShowMax, in Africa

MultiChoice is hiking the prices of its main DStv bouquets. However, most of the increases this year are relatively modest compared to last year’s adjustments. The 2017 increases are mostly below the

Naspers-owned video-on-demand platform ShowMax has made its debut in a European country, launching services in Poland on Wednesday. The Warsaw-based team responsible for the expansion is led

Vodacom has added a comedy channel, called Gunga7.com, to its line-up of channels on its Video Play service.
The mobile operator has licensed content from Diprente Films to launch the channel. It takes the number of

Naspers’s video-on-demand platform, ShowMax, has launched a lower-priced bouquet with a strong focus on local content. The new bouquet, which is available exclusively to Vodacom customers, costs R49/month

Naspers-owned Internet video-on-demand service ShowMax should now be much quicker and more responsive in Kenya. This is after the company partnered with Seacom to put caching servers on the ground in the East African nation. The servers are located