{"id":158341,"date":"2017-02-17T08:51:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T06:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=158341"},"modified":"2017-02-17T08:51:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T06:51:42","slug":"dstv-is-hiking-its-prices-for-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/158341\/dstv-is-hiking-its-prices-for-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"DStv is hiking its prices for 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice has announced that DStv price hikes will kick in on 1 April 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it did its best to\u00a0keep subscription fees down, despite \u201cthe tough economic climate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re committed to keep improving our offering so it gets better every year,\u201d said DStv.<\/p>\n<p>Not all packages are affected by price increases, and the following services will not be hit\u00a0by the hikes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DStv EasyView<\/li>\n<li>DStv Access<\/li>\n<li>Access Fee<\/li>\n<li>BoxOffice rentals<\/li>\n<li>Decoder insurance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The prices will be increasing as follows<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DStv Premium &#8211; from R759 to <strong>R789<\/strong> (R30 more)<\/li>\n<li>DStv Extra &#8211; R459 to<strong> R489<\/strong> (R30 more)<\/li>\n<li>DStv Compact &#8211; R345 to<strong> R365<\/strong> (R20 more)<\/li>\n<li>DStv Family &#8211; R219 to<strong> R235<\/strong> (R20 more)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>DStv Access\u00a0and DStv EasyView will remain the same price at R99 and R29 per month, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Other price changes for the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/199166-dstv-price-hikes-announced-2.html\">specialist packages can be seen on MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>MultiChoice said customers can \u201cmanage their DStv costs\u201d by making one annual\u00a0payment for the full year\u2019s subscription and then receive\u00a0one month of DStv for free.<\/p>\n<p>Users can also \u201clock in\u201d their price for two years by taking a 24-month\u00a0Price Lock deal.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to \u2018DStv offers good value for money\u2019 \u2013 MultiChoice\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/140649\/dstv-offers-good-value-for-money-multichoice\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">\u2018DStv offers good value for money\u2019 \u2013 MultiChoice<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice has announced that DStv price hikes will kick in on 1 April 2017.<\/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":[25],"class_list":["post-158341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158341","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=158341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158343,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158341\/revisions\/158343"}],"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=158341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}