DStv announced this past Tuesday that a number of South Africa’s sub-Saharan neighbours would be receiving a price cut.<\/p>\n
Kenyan, Zambian, Uganadan, Tanzanian, Ghanaian and Zimbabwean DStv viewers will receive a price cut of over 17%<\/strong> as well as 11 new channels on each new package<\/strong>.<\/p>\n However, South Africans will not see a similar price cut any time soon.<\/p>\n According to a report by Channel24<\/strong><\/a>, MultiChoice said\u00a0it will lower\u00a0monthly DStv subscription fees in several African countries from 1 November, but prices would not be reduced in South Africa.<\/p>\n MultiChoice said DStv Premium in South Africa \u201ccompares favourably with pricing in other African countries\u201d and that subscription prices in SA are\u00a0reviewed once a year.<\/p>\n \u201cWe review the DStv prices once a year when we do our business planning \u2013 our prices for next year will be announced before 1 April 2017.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIn South Africa, we\u2019ve implemented a number of cost-saving options for our customers \u2013 those who pay annually receive one month free, and our Price Lock packages enable customers to freeze their package price for two years,\u201d said the company.<\/p>\n We reached out to DStv regarding\u00a0the value-added benefits DStv were bringing to its lower-end subscribers, and the company\u00a0responded with the news that this Halloween weekend it would\u00a0be treating its DStv Compact and Extra customers to open-time Premium viewing.<\/p>\n From 18:00 on\u00a0Friday, 28 October\u00a0<\/strong>to 23:59 on\u00a0Sunday, 30 October<\/strong>,\u00a0M-Net 101, M-Net Edge 102, and Vuzu Amp 103 will be open to DStv Compact and Extra customers.<\/p>\n DStv prices won’t be going down any time soon – here’s why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":108885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9152,11983,2163],"class_list":["post-108883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-dstv","tag-prices","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108903,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108883\/revisions\/108903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNow read:<\/strong>\u00a0The massive channel changes coming to DStv<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"