Gerrard59:


Truth is: the Nigerian market cannot afford the cost except there is an increase in the price of subscriptions, something Multichoice wants to do. The problem is that Nigerians have become poorer over the years and her currency has lost enormous value within the same period. Which is why any organisation that decides to offer the same service would have to increase prices to breakeven or Nigerians should expect the worst of services. Nevertheless, I really pray, hope and wish that Multichoice refuses to purchase the new rights to the Premier League so that cretinous Nigerians will suffer for their profound foolishness!

I tell you, Nigerians calling for pay per view are just too emotional, they don't know they will pay even more.

The Govt is just setting them up, let them ask the former Econet man now Kwese Tv how he is faring in the industry.

Nigerians should stop being envious, DStv bouquet prices are fair, because you see them ride cars and build fine office complex doesn't mean they are not sweating it out somewhere, it's a private company and d industry is very capital intensive.

Acidosis:


There's more to DStv than sports. More people subscribe to watch Big Brother than any sport channel in Nigeria. More people even subscribe to watch The Johnsons and Basketmouth's My Flatmates

Don't mistake viewing centre addicts for genuine DStv subscribers. DStv will run at a loss if the management expects individual subscribers to cough out 15k monthly to watch Supersports.

wake up oh 90% of DSTV sub do so for football the 10% do so for show off so imagine loosing 90% of ur market to another network that's what happened in MTN,GLO,9mobile,Airtel MTN dropping largely to other network imagine it happened to multi choice

AsaSage:


Lol... It's hilarious how naive some people are, even at this point in time. Companies come up with several claims and skewed statistics every now and then. Sadly, people are quick to hop on the bandwagon without verifying such claims. An independent research on DStv plans and prices across Africa is all one needs to unravel the truth.

Its shocking how intellectually docile many Nigerians can be. All some of the claims take is an Internet check of dstv prices where they operate.

All they use the phone for is intstagram and facebook

I'm not too sure about government's direct market interference in the price of their services as being ideal because it could afftect quality, which in this case means content. Also to have an anti trust battle there has to be competition which the perpetrator is undermining.

In this case, DSTV has no active competitor in the Digital Sattelite market which is so sophisticated even government cannot possibly stimulate alternatives. Some adversaries simply cannot be defeated by confrontation as I always tell those I mentor. Create a niche, work hard to deliver an excellent product or service, reinvest almost every reward in efficiency and you will reign perpetually.

No matter how Iran hates the west and America specifically if they have to fly they must fork out scarce forex to buy American and Western aircraft because there are no viable options. Pre-Musk, if America wanted to visit their real estate in space they needed to fly Russian rockets no matter how vile Putin was.

Since we cannot compete, we cannot control and the only thing left is for market forces of supply and demand to burn DSTV out. They will sooner or later hit peak demand and peak price. By then our own Elon Musk's will be ready to 'Coup de Grace'.

MajorOvakporaye:
free Hushpuppi!!!

Go visit am for prison na

unserious government

Righteousness89:


It's very likely you are not in Kenya or ghana! You just lifted stuff on line..

Go to the countries and see the channels or contents that comes with the packages!


I Repeat ! Nigeria is being riped off!

Not true. I can talk about DSTV sub prices in South Africa ( the headquarters of multichoice), and they are at least 2000 naira more than what people pay in Nigeria. So it’s possible that Nigerians pay one of the lowest Sub prices across Africa.

austinauto:

NTA has 30% share, while the Chinese has 70% share and run by the chinese. To be honest apart from premier League is DSTV better than StarTimes?

I watched the Europa league on Startimes last season, the HD channels are nothing compared to the SD channels on DSTV. Very low quality

Gerrard59:


Good content costs money, something Nigerians cannot afford. Nigerians are notoriously poor. More brand new cars were sold in South Africa than Nigeria even though the latter has three times the population of the former.



Entirely false. Nigeria has the highest number of poor people in the world! That's a fact! The lie that the vast majority of Nigerians love football to the extend of leaving Multichoice should they let go of the EPL didn't happen when HITV got the viewing rights to air the EPL. People still stuck with Multichoice. There's more to DSTV than football. Nigeria doesn't have the financial resources to pay commensurate subscriptions for a right worth almost half a billion dollars! Cable TV is not an essential commodity!

wake up a pure Nigerian loves Entertainment why is multi choice during BB Nigeria what happened to BB Africa or BB SA who told you we are poor paid media jabs by opposite political reveal wake up oh

Long over due.

I wonder why they allow this to happen for so long.

Leg them introduce 'pay per view. The exploitation is too much.

yinkus6750:
Very welcome development
What they can't do in SA, they take us for granted and continue making so much money that they take back home.
Never knew Startines was owned by NTA, let's promote our own.
HITV came and we all switched, guess he could manage his success, and went off.
Not only them, mobile networks also, data is becoming so expensive

Sorry, we are not in a communist state.
You can't tell people what to buy.

If you are poor, you shouldn't be buying cable TV and begging the government to help you out.
Rather than throwing tantrums like kids every other 3 months, let those idiotic
government officials ban multichoice so you can enjoy your second-rate cables.

Temidayo9:

He know much cos Nigerian work and earn a living with DSTV, however I think we need to fixed power first and open business for competition, to subscribe should be by choice and cable TV never cheap anywhere in the world.

What do you know?

Dakad:
This is not the first time we are hearing this and honestly we don't care. I'm sure nothing will be done by the time the DSTV drop some millions. To put an end to this monopoly, I believe we the subscribers have a lot to do. We could stop subscribing for a month to protest our displeasure to this endless increase in tariff. DSTV is so useless that even during the lockdown when service provider like MTN are giving 10 free SMS per day, DSTV can't even leave the basic Nigerian station like Channel and TVC when subscription expires. I believe we the subscribers are the only one who can break their monopoly and bend them to stop taken us for a ride. If we wait for the government that song will change when they are bribed, then we are in for long thing

Those channels were actually open for all. Oga did you check? Or you are one of those stuck with MTV Base?

sexylassie2:
Anti business Nigerian govt.

Dstv subs in Nigeria are the lowest in Africa.

So the only reason, they put the law was because of startimes a govt company.

They want to collect things for free without paying.

Socialist government, that is why this country will be forever poor.

ur mad so because u have money to waste ...does not mean everyone does .dstv as been exploiting Nigerian for decade and you are here saying rubbish

Nigeria should go and create their own.

You can fool Nigerians.... You ain't fooling me


If they wanted to do the right thing.... They wouldn't have allow DSTV to kill TSTV


Most of us these days knows what you all at federal level are doing.... And we ain't buying into the bull shit you tell journalists to write....

xjiggy:
one third of their entire subscribers resides in Nigeria. It's not like they're not making Money. This was the same way MTN was exploiting Nigerians till their monopoly was broken

No need to lie.
MTN never had a monopoly.
They are not even the first in Nigeria.

yinkus6750:
Very welcome development
What they can't do in SA, they take us for granted and continue making so much money that they take back home.
Never knew Startines was owned by NTA, let's promote our own.
HITV came and we all switched, guess he could manage his success, and went off.
Not only them, mobile networks also, data is becoming so expensive

bros, this data issue. Can't they be a bill that will #APAYASYOUGO on data. Like... You have 5000mb. It will be there as long as you have not use it. Because I consider the data to be my property the moment I paid for it so, I shouldn't be rush by any network provider to finish it at their own time...(?)

No b small thing po!upon covid-19 den come increase subscription.

Time to renew bribe.. Thief wan stop another thief after collaborating to kill TSTV cos its owned by igbo man.. Only when there is DANTV or BUATV will DSTV be expelled... Thunder fire FG.. Thunder fire DSTV.. Thunder fire MTN.. Amadioha strike lai mohammed...

sexylassie2:
Anti business Nigerian govt.
Dstv subs in Nigeria are the lowest in Africa.
So the only reason, they put the law was because of startimes a govt company.
They want to collect things for free without paying.
Socialist government, that is why this country will be forever poor.

Shut up fool. Paid dstv agent

This is just a joke on Nigerians coming from the federal government!.. Why saying this? It's not by force to watch dstv for crying out loud? Why can't this government be proactive and responsible to there job? If you provide the citizens enabling environment i. e power, good road, housing etc what do we need this shit dstv for? Is that our priority? If the cost of purchasing power is friendly to everyone including the rate at which we can afford say like 100gb for #1000 everyone would switch to watching news and movies on the go via internet, then we won't have any for dstv, government needs to wake up to there responsibility.

Federal Government of which Country
Useless Government
Mtcheeewwww

ezenwajosh:
You can fool Nigerians.... You ain't fooling me


If they wanted to do the right thing.... They wouldn't have allow DSTV to kill TSTV


Most of us these days knows what you all at federal level are doing.... And we ain't buying into the bull shit you tell journalists to write....

TSTV killed themselves. Government was ready to back them, even to the point of offering tax break for 5 years,

1.TSTV went and pirated BeIN signals.....nearly getting BeIN into serious legal and financial trobule.

2.TSTV came with promises they could not keep (like offering data with their decoder, like that' was going to happen. Not even DSTV offers data with decoder)

3.TSTV had weak offerings, apart from football. Nigerians don't get cable only for football.

sexylassie2:
Anti business Nigerian govt.

Dstv subs in Nigeria are the lowest in Africa.

So the only reason, they put the law was because of startimes a govt company.

They want to collect things for free without paying.

Socialist government, that is why this country will be forever poor.

Your IQ must be extremely low if you think socialism is what has made Nigeria poor or any Nigerian government in history has been a socialist one.

Xisnin:


No need to lie.
MTN never had a monopoly.
They are not even the first in Nigeria.

Yes o...I am seeing the lie that MTN was having a monopoly, as if Econet(later Celtel, then Zain, and Airtel now), Mtel and (after 2005) Glo did not exist.
Nitel also was still around for sometime. Then there were CDMA operators like Starcoms, Reltel, and Intercellular (sadly now all defunct).

heniford2:
wake up a pure Nigerian loves Entertainment why is multi choice during BB Nigeria what happened to BB Africa or BB SA who told you we are poor paid media jabs by opposite political reveal wake up oh

More brand new cars were sold in South Africa than Nigeria even though the latter has three times the population of the former.

amaifehenry:
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For the past 20 years, you people have been talking of going digital and up till now the date keep shifting.
Common PHCN is there and you cannot fix not to talk of tarriff in the electricity sector.
I repeat � FG can't give us the quality of service DSTV is giving us and we are not complaining about their price.

sexylassie2:
Anti business Nigerian govt.

Dstv subs in Nigeria are the lowest in Africa.

So the only reason, they put the law was because of startimes a govt company.

They want to collect things for free without paying.

Socialist government, that is why this country will be forever poor.

You're not saying much, first of all the governmentv is in no way socialist, and again I don't know how Startimes is a government company.

Kobicove:


Stop talking about what you don't know.

Toyin Subair took a loan from GTBank so he could outbid DSTv and pay for Premiership rights which he eventually got but could not sustain because his business model had a lot of openings which allowed revenue to leak but instead of plugging them he was busy forming big boy and spending money on irrelevancies

Was that really what happened or hitv was out bidded for the exclusive premier league right. Even dstv that as been long in existence bearly survived that year 200? hitv took the right exclusively. A prompt govt intervention could have safe the day, even if its mean sharing d right 60-40.
What killed hitv was not misappropriation of funds like you insinuated buh rather lack of funds to match an established firm. infants firms are suppose to enjoy protect, support & intervention from govt.

sexylassie2:
Anti business Nigerian govt.

Dstv subs in Nigeria are the lowest in Africa.

So the only reason, they put the law was because of startimes a govt company.

They want to collect things for free without paying.

Socialist government, that is why this country will be forever poor.

DSTV decoder has more than 300 chennels, how many of them have you watched since you bought it? What do they mean by pay-per-view was not proper for the Nigerian market. They should introduce pay as you view.

This dunting effort should channel towards our power sector and not DSTV... Cable TV is by choice afterall we have nigcomsat, startimes

jornwhite:




Like seriously, how is breaking monopoly in other to facilitate more indigeneous paytv or pave way for other investors anti business.
As for the sub been lowest in africa, how many nigerians enjoy there sub, i.e imagine you sub n all you get a day is a 5hrs light .. this is where d issue of been over charged comes in.
In past & recent times, dstv as enjoy more preferential treatment than any other firm, excluding dangote ... if govt were to be more committed to startimes or indigenous firms .. dstv won't av sole right to air certains leagues, Hitv would av survived & Tstv would av been bursting our heads by now.
A country is not poor by virtue of economy she runs rather whats decides is balance of trade .. dstv income remits to south africa GNP, more subscribers on mtn & airtel respectively compared to glo .. asides crude oil what really boost our GNP, weytin we dey sell out.
Its not just the govt alone, we (consumers) have a role to play as well.