Forget data costs and African consumers. The answer is in a French investor presentation from January.
Numbers are stubborn! That Canal+ could reverse the then impending exit of CNN etc from DSTV shows the depth of capabilities they posses. Multichoice was right with Showmax back then, Canal+ is right regarding shutting down Showmax now.
The benefit of hindsight is 50/50
So the question we are left with is - who signed off on purchasing this asset.
And did we just see a teaser of how the WBD - Paramount merger would play out?
Numbers are stubborn! That Canal+ could reverse the then impending exit of CNN etc from DSTV shows the depth of capabilities they posses. Multichoice was right with Showmax back then, Canal+ is right regarding shutting down Showmax now.
The benefit of hindsight is 50/50
So the question we are left with is - who signed off on purchasing this asset.
And did we just see a teaser of how the WBD - Paramount merger would play out?