Kwesé has changed its strategy and launched a video streaming product Kwesé Play that will allow users to access VoD platforms from their homes. Kwesé attributed its new strategy to business models that were geared towards premium content rights and content consumption on digital media platforms. In February this year, Kwesé bought a controlling stake [...]
Pay TV provider Kwese has delivered converter boxes that offer customers with traditional television sets to connect to the Internet. The devices will be connected to their televisions and Kwesé subscribers will be able to link to an Internet hub that allows them to stream videos and movies from platforms like Netflix, YouTube, TED, Redbull [...]
In a communiqué, Kwesé’s parent company, Econet Media declared the development had been required by a review of its business strategy and service offerings to align them to changes in the global digital and satellite broadcasting sector, and growth in access to mobile and fixed broadband on the continent. The strategy review will put forward [...]
Vodafone Ghana has inked a deal with multiplatform broadcaster Kwesé, to provide the video-on-demand and live TV content to Ghana through the broadcaster’s video streaming service Kwesé Play. This collaboration will allow Ghanaians to connect a Kwese Play digital TV device to Vodafone’s high-speed fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) or ADSL broadband service to access unlimited live TV [...]
Econet Media’s broadcast platform Kwesé has selected Alpha Networks to deliver its over-the-top (OTT) services Kwesé Play in South Africa and the Kwesé TV app across Africa. Alpha is providing its Tucano back-end platform for the digital video service, which complements Kwesé’s direct-to-home (DTH) pay and free-to-air satellite TV services. The OTT services, which are being rolled [...]
Econet has introduced its Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) service Kwesé Play in South Africa. It is bringing Kwesé Play video streaming service to the country. The company will benefit from Africa’s largest fibre network, available through sister company Liquid Telecom which concluded its acquisition of Neotel last year. Neotel holds leading-edge 4G and 5G LTE [...]