jornwhite:





I take it you don't av a deep knowledge of business, we are talking a lucrative business here,infact the govt stands to benefit in three awesome ways.
1. hitv is an indigenous firm, revenue made will reflect & boost our GNP.
2. Loan attracts interest rate ... which means enjoy interest base on the duration of the agreement.
3. creation of more jobs: staffs ,marketers & distributor.
It in the best interest of every developing nation to protect & support infants indigeneous firm ...cos investors revenue won't add to our GNP
I can emphatically tell you dstv is overhyped, if you live in an area with gud power supply supply you will know there are lots of repetition in there programs ,i watch 2020 movies on ghana tv then i pay on dstv only to be shown movies of 3yrs & above, only music,news & sport be recent program ... when hitv took exclusive premier league right, dstv merely survived despite they've been established, from what i know then if hitv had beaten dstv 2 the right again, maybe dstv would av pack n Go as well.
That people blasted obama is irrelevant, he made the right move cos he took america out of recession. between politicians embezzling public funds or using it as loan to support indigenous firms which one will benefit the economy.

In other words, you want government to bail out HiTV...

The problem with HiTV was that it could not build its subscriber base well. Apart from football, it had very limited and weak offerings.

It's Nollywood channels?? Weak. Its religion offerings ? One christian channel...at a time when DSTV had 3 channels for protestants, and one for catholics, and 2 muslim channels.

Infotainment? Two, when DSTV had 4 or 5.

HiTV was just not building its subscriber base. You want government to pour money down a company that was not viable in the name of cheap subscripotion rate for football? A company that was struggling to pay the loan it took for the Premier League rights??

You want government to pay billions of naira so that less than 500000 people at the time could watch champions league? When billions don't even have the electric power or television to watch the thing?Plus on top of that pay back the loan?

Premier league rights are expensive. Keep that in mind, and maybe you will get why your idea does not work.

obiekunie2:


sir you need to run some updates on your info file.

STARTIME IS WHOLLY OWNED BY THE DAMNED CHINESE VULTURES - GOSH! I HATE CHINESE!





DON'T GET UPSET BY MY COMMENT - THE CHINESE HATES US MORE THAN THEY HATE ANY OTHER THING ON EARTH.

IF CHINAMAN HAVE HIS WAY, THEY WILL ADD US TO THEIR MENU.

You no hate Chinese reach me, but both of them are the same. The only difference be say we can connect well with SA because we see them as brother. But they both hate Nigerians. It is much painful to see person you regards as brother treat you so bad and hate everything you do.

sexylassie2:


It is not, south Africa is, and in south Africa majority are on premium sub

While in Nigeria majority are on GOTV.

mumu talk oh stop embarrassing yourself here Nigeria majority only sub for GOTV people self

kikero:


Test running...when they were offering decoder., and saying they have launched service? And even had sales agents across the country.

TSTV was not serious, and they knew it. HiTV even did better than them when they started.

The guy behind TSTV should go and get more financing, and get better prepared. Not try to build brand on lies and wuru wuru practices.

Startines dey for people that don't like DSTV. Much cheaper.

In a saner clime, the guy behind tstv should be in jail set, for pirating bein signal.

For me instead of ending their monopoly, they should insist on pay as you watch. It can be very frustrating to pay for one month's subscription and end up not watching it because of the poor state of electricity in the country. Also, they should create enabling environment for New investors into the sector

kikero:


Because, as I have explained upthread, a pay as you go service would end up costing the consumer more money than the packages service on offer.

Let's use an example...you watch a movie every night on DSTV with your 3 hours of power. Under PAYG, you spend N2000 per movie per night. That means in one month, you may end up paying 62000 naira. (for paying for the content you want to watch)

By the way, premium subscribers on DSTV can watch some movies on a Pay as you go system. They press the green button, and then pay for the movie they select. That money is on top of their subscription. Of course that's additional cost.

That's the sad truth.

And many DSTV subscribers have generators and solar. It's only a few who don't have that.

2000 per movie view abi oloriburuku ni e ni? I have been reading your comments all I deduced from your defence of DSTV is that you are either a paid agent or a south African benefiting one way or the other, cos I don't know why a reasonable person going through the hardship of paying 10k and not watching up to 72hours, yet someone somewhere is telling us we are paying less and we should not complain. If paying what others are paying in Africa is what we make us get ppv we are ready abeg

danieldinho:
wow speechless, running business in is not easy, was thinking they would have close to 40million subscribers base on our population chai now am filling for them

They don't.

Cable tv is expensive. That's why many Nigerians living abroad don't have cable. (Someone I knew migrated to the US. I doubt that person has the US equivalent of DSTV up till now. It costs money). And that's why most Nigerians don't have cable.

Myself, if I really wanted, I would have dumped my DSTV subscription since.It costs me money. It's just that there are some channels I like there...like Discovery, Investigation discovery and the crime channels.(and history channel when it made sense). plus news channels. and sports.

heniford2:
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

How many Nigerians spend 7-15k on DSTV sub every month? Majority of subscribers go for the 2-5k package on DStv and gotv, where there are no reasonable sport channels. Take sport away from DStv, these subscribers will remain loyal.

thinkmoney:

I have heard this claim several times that we pay the lowest sub. I am beginning to doubtthe rationale though. The reason; a lot of household sub for one month but end up enjoying only a few days worth-many times not up to even 10days-because of our electricity situation. Example again is those that show ball. The pay hugely for a month but only show some sparsely games.
The calculation is that we are actually paying more for what we get compared to many other countries. If they feel this my assumption is not true, why can't they just make it 'pay as u go'. That would be the logical and fair thing to do

Lack of electricity is not dstv fault or problem

Daddysidhan:
2000 per movie view abi oloriburuku ni e ni? I have been reading your comments all I deduced from your defence of DSTV is that you are either a paid agent or a south African benefiting one way or the other, cos I don't know why a reasonable person going through the hardship of paying 10k and not watching up to 72hours, yet someone somewhere is telling us we are paying less and we should not complain. If paying what others are paying in Africa is what we make us get ppv we are ready abeg

LOL....it is because you don't get how pay per view works.

If you did, you would see why no company wants to bring it to Nigeria.

Other African countries pay much higher than we do per package. We pay the cheapest rate in Africa.

For more on how Pay per view works and why it would be expensive see this PM News article from 2015.

Infact until a few months ago, I used to think that South Africa did pay per view , until I did the research.

P.S I work in the medical field. DSTV has no use for people like me.I am not their agent too.

COMPAQ:


In a saner clime, the guy behind tstv should be in jail set, for pirating bein signal.

To be honest, I wanted TSTV to succed...I was even flirting with the idea of getting it...until I read more and backed away.

The guy could not afford to even bid for half of the premier league rights. That's why he went into piracy. (Going into business without money, haba).

In England, Sky was the sole rights owner of EPL matches, until BT got some money and got half the games. BBC too got some matches as well (for the first time in 30 years)

kikero:


They don't.

Cable tv is expensive. That's why many Nigerians living abroad don't have cable. (Someone I knew migrated to the US. I doubt that person has the US equivalent of DSTV up till now. It costs money). And that's why most Nigerians don't have cable.

Myself, if I really wanted, I would have dumped my DSTV subscription since.It costs me money. It's just that there are some channels I like there...like Discovery, Investigation discovery and the crime channels.(and history channel when it made sense). plus news channels. and sports.

Thanks for the enlightment of a truth compare to other cable billing in other clime i would say DSTV IS cheap

COMPAQ:


Lack of electricity is not dstv fault or problem

Then they should put our circumstance into perspection.
It's only fare we pay for what we use.
This DSTV scheme is the same wit how PHCN don't like the prepaid metre

peterdrock001:
For me instead of ending their monopoly, they should insist on pay as you watch. It can be very frustrating to pay for one month's subscription and end up not watching it because of the poor state of electricity in the country. Also, they should create enabling environment for New investors into the sector

If you use pay as you watch, you will end up paying higher than the current system.

In brief, DSTV negotiates payment for contents by channels. As a result, they pay a set price.

On a pay as you watch system, you would be paying per content you watch. So, for example, you would be paying for one episode of your favourite series, or one football match...

Which could, in principle, mean you pay as much as N20000 or more per month...because content is not cheap.

That's why we have a packages system. Not only in Nigeria, all over Africa. It's cheaper.

Dstv is just hated simply because is South African, We know.

God1stson:

I disagree with u. Nigeria has what it take to moderate it's digital television space forget that we have not switched to full digitization.Anytime Nigeria gets its act right political wise. All these loopholes will be plucked

Tell us one thing that nigeria has ever got right.

Audio!

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 subs in Nigeria are the lowest in Africa
for ur mind abi.......
people commenting from outside Nigeria dnt even knw what is going on in Nigeria

amaifehenry:
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https://punchng.com/how-well-end-dstv-others-monopoly-fg/?amp=1&utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&__twitter_impression=true

Very funny so what are we going to say about the government?

thinkmoney:

Then they should put our circumstance into perspection.
It's only fare we pay for what we use.
This DSTV scheme is the same wit how PHCN don't like the prepaid metre

Who is going to compensate dstv for diesel they use to run their own services??

heniford2:
its pure lie if SA has the highest subscribe why is DSTV still in Nigeria paying high and blackmail other network haba !!! lets say the truth for once only Nigeria market is a big gain for DSTV more than whole Africa as awhole

A market with 1000 people selling goods at 1 naira and a market with 500 people selling at 2 naira who's more profitable. Remember operating costs in RSA is cheaper than operating costs in NG.

Lets use the education sector in NG as example, do you think the universities here are expensive? The quality of service you get shouldn't be compared to that of ZA except our government is straight forward.
Even if dstv decides not to buy exclusive rights wich tv network do you think we'll be able to pay and still deliver quality service

Xisnin:






You guys need proper business education, DSTV is not a monopoly.
You or your government are free to set up a new cable TV as a competitor
but I guess you won't.

You want someone else to risk their capital to invest and at the same time
force them to lower prices for you. You can't eat your cake and have it.

Friendly advice, if you don't like the price, stop using DSTV, it is not food or air.

You are definitely the one without business sense here.
If not because of corruption, multi choice would have gotten zero patronage had there been other alternatives.

Baawahala:
You are definitely the one without business sense here.
If not because of corruption, multi choice would have gotten zero patronage had there been other alternatives.

There are alternatives like Startimes.

You can swtich to them. They are much cheaper, and they offer football self.(Europa plus Bundesliga).

Or if you have the money, set up your own alternative.

The truth is, Multichoice is the only one in town (not really) because apart from Startimes, no one else has the cash to compete with them. HiTV and TSTV lost out because their offerings apart from football were very weak.

I tink d fed govt is being hypocritical for asking dstv to revert to old price wen dey hav gifted nigerians 143 naira new petrol pump price on d same day as dsty price increase. Hypocrites every werrr!!

If the fvcking SA company can't serve Nigerians wella make dem back d fvck off from naija..


besides if it was in SA dey would have done the unthinkable to Nigerian company out there.



Nigeria is a country where even Togo can step on use and we can't do sh*@#t to them ....


Ghana don do their own already........

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.

Nigeria is not a poor country -GDP and revenue wise.

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

Yeye DSTV, these south African coys always ripping Nigerians off.

That is how MTN initially claimed that per second billing was impossible until Glo came and introduced PSB as USP, there forcing MTN to reconfigure there system to support PSB.

Now DSTV is saying PAYG is not possible for Nigeria market because of lack of competition.

There business strategy must change otherwise with time their market share will reduce seriously.

Na today?Una licencing people don chop egunje belle full na.Multichoice has cheated naija ppl since imo river was discovered.
To top it all if rainy season do dey na weak signal all thru no apology,no compensation.Abeg scatter the multichoice

Crispels:



Nigeria is not a poor country -GDP and revenue wise.

lets forget all these gdp talk, nigeria is poor, how many people can afford basic things in this country

even your budget will tell you that Nigeria is a poor country, all countries use revenue to fund budget

Nigeria budget for 2019 $29 billion vs south africa $116 billion

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Nigeria is not a poor country -GDP and revenue wise.

We are.

1.Tax per gdp ratio is 5.8 % (South Africa is 28%, Ghana 14%)

2.Our budget for this year was $26billion . For comparison SA spent $23 billion on education alone (Canada spent $65 billion on primary school education alone in one year).

3.GDP per capita for Nigeria ? $2028 . South Africa? $6734

We are not rich.

kikero:


In other words, you want government to bail out HiTV...

The problem with HiTV was that it could not build its subscriber base well. Apart from football, it had very limited and weak offerings.

It's Nollywood channels?? Weak. Its religion offerings ? One christian channel...at a time when DSTV had 3 channels for protestants, and one for catholics, and 2 muslim channels.

Infotainment? Two, when DSTV had 4 or 5.

HiTV was just not building its subscriber base. You want government to pour money down a company that was not viable in the name of cheap subscripotion rate for football? A company that was struggling to pay the loan it took for the Premier League rights??

You want government to pay billions of naira so that less than 500000 people at the time could watch champions league? When billions don't even have the electric power or television to watch the thing?Plus on top of that pay back the loan?

Premier league rights are expensive. Keep that in mind, and maybe you will get why your idea does not work.

The journey of a thousand miles started with one step, dstv start from somewhere, no one starts perfects or end up perfect .. there will alway be room for improvement. considering the years dstv as been in an existence to Hitv .. i think it highly unfair for anyone to draw up comparism. hitv life span lasted just 4yrs (2007-11), dstv came on air 1995 as at 2000 what was there subscriber base tew, i remember then small breeze signal go lost startimes & hitv beat them to that.
No be say govt go dash dem money naa investment, economy nids such long term investment, why do you think foreign countries rush to loans us, love ur neibor as ursef abi loan naa beta business ask banks & other financial institution, oversee govt prefer installmental paymental payment to cash.
Premier league is expensive,dstv got d right for just $100m ... do you know how much presidential election cost in nigeria people fund it, .. hushpuppi & his crew were caught with $40million cash ...money is not the problem we are not don't just like & support our own nii