The company that in many respects started SA’s broadband price war, Afrihost, says it will introduce low-cost and uncapped broadband packages from early next week.
And its prices will, at the very least, match MWeb’s.
Afrihost’s move comes just a day after MWeb, which is owned by media giant Naspers, took SA’s Internet industry by surprise by [...]
Just a day after MWeb dropped a bombshell on SA’s Internet industry by slashing broadband prices and introducing uncapped offerings, Vox Telecom subsidiary @lantic has struck back, undercutting MWeb and setting the stage for a full-blown price war.
@lantic has introduced three uncapped products, including ADSL line rental and uncapped data bundles, starting at just [...]
MWeb, facing criticism from some consumers over fair-use provisions in the terms and conditions of its new, uncapped broadband packages, will meet with its legal team on Tuesday to consider amendments to them.
The company, which operates the Twitter feed FreeTheWebSA, tweeted on Friday morning that it was considering amendments to the terms and conditions following [...]
The second and final stage of the introduction of fixed-line number portability, which will allow individual Telkom customers to switch networks without losing their numbers, has been delayed by about five weeks.
The first phase of fixed-line number portability, also known as geographic number portability (GNP), kicked off in May last year; the second, more important [...]
Altech will soon expand into Brazil and China, and increase its presence in India and Nigeria, as the JSE-listed IT and telecommunications group seeks to step up its exposure to fast-growing emerging markets, says CEO Craig Venter.
The group’s vehicle tracking subsidiary Netstar will announce plans soon to establish a presence in the vast Brazilian market, [...]
A company partly owned by communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda was allegedly unlawfully awarded a R67,8m tender by the Gauteng roads and transport department, the DA said on Thursday.
DA Gauteng corruption spokesman Jack Bloom said GNS Risk Advisory Services, in which Nyanda had 50% share, had benefited from a tender which was not publicly advertised.
“This is [...]
On Digital Media on Thursday unveiled its plans to enter SA’s pay-TV market in May, becoming the first company to compete with incumbent operator MultiChoice and its DStv service.
This is a full list of the channels the ODM service, known as TopTV, will offer at launch.
BASIC
Top One
Top One is a 24-hour general entertainment channel, [...]
After four years of planning, On Digital Media (ODM) has finally played its hand. The first alternative pay-TV operator to MultiChoice’s DStv will offer up to 55 channels at launch across several bouquets.
The service, which will launch in May and which will be called TopTV, will cost between R99/month and R249/month. TopTV is targeted principally [...]
MWeb, part of media group Naspers, has thrown down the gauntlet to its rivals in the Internet service provider market, slashing the price of fixed-line broadband, in some cases to as much as 40% below its rivals.
The company will offer uncapped ADSL data starting at R219/month for a shaped, 384Kbit/s service; a shaped 4Mbit/s uncapped [...]
MWeb, a unit of media giant Naspers, has joined the broadband price war in SA, offering aggressively priced uncapped broadband.
What follows is a verbatim press release from MWeb. See here for TechCentral’s article.
South Africans are today a step closer to being able to use the internet like the rest of the world does as MWEB, [...]
