An Openserve technician working on a fibre line Telkom’s Openserve has quietly launched its own internet service provider, potentially setting itself up in competition with its own ISP customers – and some of those customers are already voicing concern at the move. The wholesale fibre network operator’s new direct channel, Openserve ISP, sells uncapped fibre…
A customer shops for gold jewelry at a gold store in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, on June 3, 2026. Costfoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images China’s wholesale prices rose at the fastest pace in nearly four years in May, driven by surging raw material costs due to the Iran war and an artificial intelligence investment…
Vox’s Andre Eksteen is TechCentral guest on TCS+ Vox, a well-established retail internet service provider is expanding its services to the wholesale market through aggregation. In this episode of TechCentral’s podcast series TCS+, Andre Eksteen, senior product manager for fibre to the business at Vox, discusses the rationale behind this strategy and the services Vox…
MultiChoice South Africa CEO Byron du Plessis MultiChoice is working on a huge overhaul of DStv, including revamping its channel bouquets, as it looks to stem subscriber losses in an increasingly competitive market. Key to the upcoming changes is figuring out how to attract younger viewers, whose media consumption patterns are radically different to older…
