MultiChoice, owners of DStv and GOtv, has increased subscription rates by five percent, with effect from May 1, 2017.
This is coming less than two years after Nigerians threatened to boycott MultiChoice Nigeria over 20 percent subscription hike.
Back then, a court ordered the company not to increase the rates pending the determination of a suit filed against it by some lawyers, but MultiChoice waved aside the order.
Under the new price regime, the monthly subscription on DStv premium bouquet, which is N13,980 will be N14,700. Compact Plus DStv subscribers will pay N9,900 as against the current N9,420, while Compact subscribers will no longer pay N6,000 but N6,300.
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Family bouquet subscribers will now be charged N3,800 as against the N3,600 they are paying at the moment, while Access bouquet would be N1,900 and not N1,800.
Commercial bouquet, which is currently N1,720, has been adjusted to N1,850.
The new rates for, GOtv Value and GOtv Lite bouquets, are N1,300 and N450, against the current rates of N1,200 and N400.
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GOtv Plus subscribers will have to pay N1,900 instead of the current rate of N1,800.
MultiChoice has defended its action, saying the adjustment was made after careful consideration and a review of its business operations.
“We announced last year that we would do everything possible to hold the price barring any extreme factors,” John Ugbe, managing director of Multichoice Nigeria, said in a statement.
“However, all our content is purchased in dollars and although we have done everything possible to hold the prices even with the price of everything else going up, we are now left with no choice but to adjust our subscription prices from May 1.
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“Our key priority is to put subscribers’ needs at the heart of everything we do and therefore, in determining the price adjustment, we took into account many factors including, the impact on the customer, current inflation which stands at 19 per cent, programming costs and efficiencies within the company. Please be assured that we have worked really hard to keep this year’s fees manageable.”
16 comments
But d price of d naira is further appreciating against d dollar so wats d justification?
I don’t like the idea of changing it. Because people are complaining of d older price and now it’s even going higher. My God i don’t i know where we are going in this country.
God please give me another country I’m tired of Nigeria
Please is not by increasing prices, what about the channels like AFICAN MAGIC EPIC repeating itself with same dramas not even current ones.
It is bad .l believe they will not do that in south Africa. God bless them trying as well to exploit Nigerians as well
Please, let this be pay as you watch.
Please leave the price where it is if u don’t want to lose customers. We are yet coping with d 1st increment and fact that u people don’t keep to it promises. Thank u.
So where is the Consumer Protection Commission in all this. DSTv should should be compelled to charge on a pay-as-you watch basis. The NCC and the NBC should step in please
What is best practice around the world for satellite tv?
God help us
After paying for Gotv since how many weeks now, u people are telling me to clear error codes which am trying to do instead u say my iuc no is not correct, now u are increasing ur price when u have not finish serving people what they pay for. I will go and buy DVD player.when u call gotv line they will eat ur money and will not answer u.
Only few programmes are live on DSTV others are repeat
Your comment..have paid my decorder till octomber and have switched off why?uc no2016054110
Your comment..is too bad increasing price when is only on Wednesdays and Saturday that u show EPL and laliga games is not good
Your comment..the price is much ..tomuch repeatation of movie ,missing channels always .for the past two months am just getting only 24 channels after calling them dey will do nothing,am even tired of it.free tv is much more better dan gotv
Your comment..I ate it the price is not justified repeat is the order of the day no latest movie and only one action movie channel too bad
I have paid to subscribe after expiry date and still haven’t gotten value for my money… what’s all this drama about with gotv… I guess you are tired of having customers.
Why not like recharge card in hand phone,light or no light watch or not your money goes,I don’t need it again