MultiChoice parent Naspers has disclosed that it has grown the number of pay-television subscribers on its books substantially in the past year, though pressure on prices in a weak economy, coupled with
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Showmax is getting into original programming. The Naspers-owned Internet video streaming company said on Tuesday that it has begun filming of the first “Showmax Original”, featuring SuzelleDIY star Julia Anastasopoulos. The company said
The telecommunications industry in South Africa and the rest of the continent is on the cusp of a fibre and mobile broadband boom, as network operators scramble to meet the demand for video, cloud applications and mobile solutions among consumers
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