SA is richer for the social benefit, intellectual property and experience gained from the second national satellite.
The explosion was boosted by the roll-out of new digital TV networks such as IPTV.
New Dawn is set to take to the skies over Africa tomorrow night, to give telecoms providers additional capacity.
The PTV1000 Push2TV device allows the laptop to wirelessly 'push' content to the TV screen. [Local rep: Duxbury Networking]
Despite earlier lobbying to block the company, Sky has now agreed to provide content for YouView.
The country is set to converge cable TV, telecoms and the Internet into a single network.
Industry must deliver high-quality content to keep consumers' enthusiasm from waning, says PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The satellite does not have the backup parts that most do, but the DST says none of the problems have been critical so far.
Will the return on investment for the telescope project be enough to justify the huge costs?
The country's Media Owners Association seeks to stop the digital trial that began in 2009.
The countries have yet to develop their African Resource Management Satellite Constellation contribution and will now work together.
The government plans to implement a self-regulatory mechanism that will review objectionable content being aired.