{"id":204836,"date":"2017-10-12T17:30:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T15:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=204836"},"modified":"2017-10-12T17:30:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T15:30:10","slug":"dstv-must-fall-icasa-candidate-calls-for-drop-in-subscription-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/204836\/dstv-must-fall-icasa-candidate-calls-for-drop-in-subscription-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;DStv must fall&#8217; &#8211; Icasa candidate calls for drop in subscription prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former E-tv employee competing for a seat on the board of the communications regulator\u201a the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa)\u201a wants DStv to make its subscriptions cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/2017-10-12-icasa-board-candidate-wants-dstv-to-drop-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TimesLive<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Natalie Delport\u00a0is being interviewed by MPs for three vacancies on the Icasa board.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to a question from EFF MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi\u201a Delport agreed that there was a monopoly in the pay television space and this needed to be addressed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think more can be done to share the benefits that pay TV (offers),&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d be saying\u201a \u2018Koos\u201a I think you need to make the DStv bouquet more accessible and affordable&#8217;. In the pay TV space I think there is monopoly and something can be done about that\u201a&#8221; said Delport.<\/p>\n<div id=\"8e86d3f158193d0edabc79951f9beb9c4151ada0\" class=\"article-widget article-widget-text\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"text\">\n<p>DStv came under fire last week when\u00a0the Congress of South African Trade Unions announced that it plans to picket\u00a0Saturday\u2019s Rugby Championship clash between South Africa and New Zealand in Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>The trade federation\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sport24.co.za\/Rugby\/RugbyChampionship\/cosatu-threatens-to-picket-bok-all-black-game-20171003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>claimed<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>that the primary reason for their protest was DStv\u2019s monopoly over national rugby broadcasting rights in the country, and the lack of freely accessible games broadcast by the SABC.<\/p>\n<p>As it stands, only those with DStv subscriptions and access to SuperSport are able to watch Springbok matches live.<\/p>\n<p>The protest action later fell through, but Cosatu vowed to continue tackling DStv about its monopoly over sports in the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/202690\/dstvs-monopoly-on-sports-comes-under-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DStv\u2019s monopoly on sports comes under fire<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former E-tv employee competing for a seat on the board of Icasa wants DStv to make its subscriptions cheaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":136627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[78,26],"class_list":["post-204836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-dstv","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204836","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204836"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204850,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204836\/revisions\/204850"}],"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=204836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}