Eutelsat, the satellite operator has signed a deal with Tizeti, West Africa’s pioneer solar-based internet service provider and a provider of community connectivity solutions to jointly improve broadband penetration in Nigeria, especially in underserved locations. The two companies announced during the sidelines of the AfricaCom 2022 trade fair that they will deploy Eutelsat’s KA-band satellite […]
A Competition & Consumer Protection tribunal, sitting in Nigeria, has thrown out class action lawsuit challenging recent price increases by DStv. MultiChoice owns both DStv and Gotv, which are pay-TV operations in Nigeria. Delivering judgment on September 6th, a three-member panel of the tribunal, dismissed the suit for lacking in merit. Lawyer, Festus Onifade, had […]
Would-be subscribers to Elon Musk’s Starlink broadband service need only pay $99 as a deposit on their home-equipment. US customers have to stump up $599 for the same equipment. Starlink will open up for Nigerian users during August 2022, although Starlink has yet to announce its monthly subscription charges for Nigerian customers. Nigeria’s communication authority […]
SPI/FilmBox and Globacom, a telco in sub-Saharan Africa, are bringing nine channels from the SPI portfolio to Nigeria with Glo-TV, a streaming service for watching live linear TV, VoD and catch-up content. Glo-TV subscribers can now access FilmBox Africa, FilmBox Action, Dizi, DocuBox, FashionBox, Fast&FunBox, FightBox, Gametoon and 360 TuneBox for a wide range of […]
South Africa-based pay-TV operator MultiChoice says it is facing a liquidity crisis in terms of its presence in Nigeria, its second-largest market. The problem is that repatriating cash out of Nigeria is expensive. The country has various foreign exchange rates, and the difference between the ‘Investors & Exporters’ rate (of US$1 is currently some Naira420. […]
MTN Group and Huawei have jointly launched the Premium Wi-Fi service in Nigeria to continuously improve end-users’ experience on the network. The Premium Wi-Fi can play back the historical home Wi-Fi performance in the last seven days. It demarcates faults based on speed tests by segment and diagnoses major issues in just one click to […]
Nigeria’s Competition and Consumer Protection (CCP) tribunal in Abuja has adjourned, for now, a case challenging the price increases planned by MultiChoice Nigeria Limited, owner of DStv and Gotv in Nigeria. Festus Onifade, a lawyer, sued the satellite television services giant over the increase in subscription prices, on behalf of himself and a coalition of […]
Nigeria’s Federal Competition & Consumer Protection tribunal has confirmed a previous order to MultiChoice’s DStv and GOtv pay-TV services to stop its price increase levied on subscribers. The Tribunal, meeting in the nation’s Abuja capital, ruled on April 11 that MultiChoice cannot increase subscription prices pending a full hearing to determine the arguments for and […]
Nigeria’s parliamentary senate is pushing the nation’s pay-TV providers to reduce their monthly fees. Letters have gone to DStv, StarTimes and GoTV to cut their rates. A Senatorial 7-person committee has been formed to examine recent tariff hikes by pay-TV service providers in the country. The Senate has also directed all pay-TV service providers to […]
VIS Social Impact, the cause-driven production division of Paramount’s international studio, VIS, has announced the launch of its inaugural writers’ room; ‘Beyond the Binary: Fluid Voices,’ led by actor, writer and director Thishiwe Ziqubu. A stellar line-up of seven African writers with different levels of experience have been selected for the opportunity to create content […]