{"id":140649,"date":"2016-10-19T15:47:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T13:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=140649"},"modified":"2016-10-19T15:47:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T13:47:22","slug":"dstv-offers-good-value-for-money-multichoice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/140649\/dstv-offers-good-value-for-money-multichoice\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;DStv offers good value for money&#8217; &#8211; MultiChoice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice has stated that DStv subscribers in South Africa will not see a price cut this year, and that the price of DStv in the country compares favourably with pricing in other African countries.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel24.co.za\/TV\/News\/dstv-weve-got-some-good-news-and-some-bad-news-20161019\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Channel24<\/strong><\/a>, MultiChoice made the statement after announcing it will lower\u00a0monthly DStv subscription fees in several African countries from 1 November.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Botswana are among the countries receiving a discount in subscription fees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve done a lot of research into what pay-TV costs in other parts of the world, and we believe that DStv offers good value for money in the countries in which it operates,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>\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<p>\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<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on DStv<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/columns\/136623\/why-i-miss-dstv\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Why I miss having DStv<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice has stated that DStv subscribers in South Africa will not see a price cut this year, and that the price of DStv in the country compares favourably with pricing in other African countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":136627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-140649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140651,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140649\/revisions\/140651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}