The debate about how, when and whether publishers should charge for the content they provide is reaching fever pitch. Facing some hard economic realities, an increasing number of publishers are looking to monetise their properties by putting walls around some or all of their content and charging for it
The crew this week consists of Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod, Steven Ambrose and Nic Callegari. They discuss: An update from Icasa’s recent stakeholders’ meeting Spectrum allocation in SA The Internet Service Providers’ Association’s call for mandatory voice line rentals to be dropped on ADSL connections Internet line speed and quality tests World Wide Worx’s Mobile [...]
Cellphone network operator MTN SA says it has spent nearly R450m on network investments directly related to the 2010 soccer World Cup, including the roll-out of dedicated infrastructure at all the stadiums to be used during the tournament
The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) has set out the details of the highly anticipated auction of spectrum to be used for providing new wireless broadband services. The spectrum in question, the valuable frequency in the 2,6GHz and 3,5GHz bands, will be auctioned off to the highest bidders in a process not unlike the [...]
Wholesale mobile call termination rates will not be cut on 1 July, as previously envisaged by the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa). But Icasa chairman Paris Mashile is adamant that “the sun will not set on the last day of July” without the new rates being implemented and has warned the operators not to [...]
With Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar Games has nailed the Western genre so perfectly in videogame format that no-one else should even bother to try. It’s a work of staggering ambition that takes in Sergio Leone’s epic sweep, Sam Peckinpah’s brutality, Deadwood’s grim humour and John Ford’s iconic Western landscapes, and all with apparent ease. Developed [...]
Icasa has issued a second invitation to apply for a potentially lucrative digital mobile television broadcasting licence. This follows its decision last week to grant only one licence, to e.tv, in an initial process that saw Super 5 Media, the Mobile TV Consortium and incumbent pay-TV operator MultiChoice excluded from the process. The licences are [...]
In an extraordinary admission to the telecommunications and broadcasting industries, outgoing Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) chairman Paris Mashile said on Thursday evening that the regulator had “failed” the industry, adding that he would take personal responsibility for its poor performance
DStv operator MultiChoice is upping the ante with its new rival On Digital Media (ODM) and its TopTV service. On Thursday, the incumbent satellite pay-TV operator introduced a cut-price high-definition personal video recorder (HD-PVR) decoder that it hopes will drive HD technology to a broader audience
The use of mobile Internet services in SA has “exploded”, though less than half of urban cellphone users who have Internet-capable phones use the Internet, according to new research from World Wide Worx. A new reseach report, released on Thursday, shows that use of specific applications such as MXit and Facebook Mobile far outpace browsing [...]
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