Now you have a situation where the Department – along with the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture – want to draw up a list of the kind of sports that need to be seen as being in the national interest and therefore must be accessible to all when it’s broadcast.
South Africa has had a data problem for a while now, with our costs far above the worldwide norms. In a surprise move, consumers might finally be winning.
It seems someone at the SABC tried to push through a R550 million deal without due process and now the folks at Caxton Publishing are not very impressed.
In other disturbing news today, porn is making its way into family living rooms in time for many kids to accidentally stumble upon it. How many kids are still watching TV at 8pm? Too many to be airing porn?
South Africa’s transition to full digital terrestrial broadcasting is one of those processes that one measures in aeons, like the lifespan of stars or the inexorable evolution of monkey-fish-frogs into homo sapiens. The Ministry of Communications released the latest twist in this lengthy tale this morning, so get your R700 Set Top Box fee ready while we explore Dina’s latest digital daydream, after the jump!
In a shocking move from ICASA, the communications regulator in South Africa, a hold has been put on its applications to allocate frequencies to various local cell providers. This all sounds very complicated, but I’m going to attempt to spell it all out for you below, in words you’ll be able to understand.