South Africa-based conglomerate Naspers has reported a 24 per cent rise in profits for its trading year which ended on March 31st. Naspers earnings per share were $8.14 (compared with $6.56 a year ago). Naspers has a 28.9 per cent stake in Tencent which it holds through its Amsterdam-based subsidiary Prosus which manages Naspers international […]

Premier Sports has secured the broadcast rights to the 2021 British & Irish Lions Tour of South Africa where rugby fans can enjoy every match live and exclusive, available in 23 Asian countries. Edinburgh plays host to a pre-Tour game before the Series gets underway when The Lions face World Cup quarter finalists Japan on […]

Eutelsat Communications and Vox, an end-to-end integrated ICT and infrastructure provider and telco, have reached a multi-year distribution agreement to extend high-speed network connectivity to South Africa. As of June, Vox will leverage the operational flexibility and power of Eutelsat Konnect, the new-generation high throughput satellite, and Eutelsat’s service to further grow its satellite customer […]

The media market in Africa is booming for both home-grown and international content, but to develop further, Africans need cheaper data, faster network access and devices capable of streaming media. According to Dion Price, CEO of  revenue and device security specialist Trustonic, the challenge is that the average selling price of phones is going up, […]

South Africa’s Multichoice is declining to add local licence fees that residents have to pay for viewing SABC transmissions. The nation has a habit of not paying such fees and the government wanted Multichoice to add the costs to their monthly/annual subscriber amounts. Currently some 24 per cent of South Africans pay the obligatory fee, […]

South Africa’s MultiChoice has prospered in the last 12 months. Including its DStv and SuperSport broadcasting brands, the pay-TV operator grew its subscriber base by 1.4 million over the past year. Subscriber numbers now total 20.9 million when its overall Africa viewers are added in. South Africa itself has 8.9 million subs, with 11.9 million […]

South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa has heavily criticised local telcos for mounting a series of legal objections to the nation’s plan to issue more broadband spectrum. MTN Group, which holds the second most subscribers in the country, and Telkom have both appealed to courts about how the regulator is arranging the auction, which was announced […]

South Africa’s SABC public broadcaster is in an acrimonious spat with the nation’s transmission company, Sentech. SABC has reportedly written to South Africa’s Competition Commission as well as regulator ICASA alleging that Sentech is levying “unfair and anti-competitive price” for carrying SABC’s transmissions. The move is seen as being a potentially extremely damaging showdown between […]

South Africa’s spectrum regulator, ICASA, has awarded spectrum licences to a cluster of smaller operators but not to the nation’s established players. The new bandwidth is likely to be used for 5G services. Newcomers Comsol Networks, Nthinte Communications, Real Time Communications, Marion Technology and One Telecom have reportedly been granted 60 MHz of bandwidth each […]

South Africa’s SABC public broadcaster is using public service announcements on its channels that its analogue broadcast are coming to an end and being replaced by digital TV signals. Scrolling messages are being shown on all of the SABC channels. The text reads: “Important notice: If you see this message, go to your nearest Post […]