Pay TV service provider Multichoice has clarified the latest price hikes for its various bouquets in Zambia after a public outcry.
The Zambian Eye launched an online petition on it’s Facebook this week calling on Zambians to push Multichoice to reduce the new rates or cancel their subscriptions has gained ground with over 3,000 subscribers signing up.
But Multichoice Zambia Public Relations Manager Mwika Malindima explained that the rates being posted on social media are incorrect and should be dismissed.
Mr Malindima explained that the purported K700 for premium bouquet doing rounds on social media is a fabrication.
He said the new rates are as follows: Premium has gone up to K710 from K631, Compact Plus is now at K413 from K337 while Compact is now at K248 from K203 with family now standing at K158 from K127 while the cheapest bouquet access is now at K 83 from K64.
Mr Malindima said, ‘Every year in April we revise our rates because that is when our financial year starts and this is due to escalating cost of doing business, the rising cost of purchasing new content and rental of channels, we also have to pay for satellite space and all our partners have increased the cost.’
He also clarified the disparities in the pricing of Dstv bouquets among different regions in Africa.
‘These countries trade on different market platforms, the strength of the individual economies come into play. As you all will be aware, the Kwacha has lost so much ground against the US dollar and that has a bearing on the cost of our production,’ he said.
Mr Malindima has also dispelled assertions that Zambia has the highest cost of Dstv services in the whole of Southern Africa.
‘For us we want to give our subscribers the best value for money. This year we have launched three new channels, we now have the new channel which is Zee World and last year we launched 11 new channels and we guarantee value for money.’
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sure! zambians we can’nt you also protest about the high prices of mealie – meal the stable food for very zambian. what is DSTV? you can live without DSTV, but you can’nt live without food. lets stand up and protest for something sensible.
am stuck with my decoder. while I appreciate dstv. allow me to correct something here. there is an element of exploitation because you are given too much incentives such that you take Zambians for fools.
you will soon introduce another system on your TV and throw the pain to the consumer.
the consumer rights group I wonder they exist for?
Z.R.A don’t even check these things and how these people are making money out of exploitation of the consumer.
my God help us and I want to urge all of you young people not to pay the 710 for the sake of those who cant even afford so that you don’t allow criminality on a poor nation like zambia
Why the difference with what the South Africans are paying? If you convert Rands and Kwacha to US dollars you see that we are paying almost double the amount. Can someone explain this difference please! These boers have taken advantage of us. Last month was my last to subscribe! Bye bye DSTV.
mr what do you mean from k631 to k710? Are people cheating or you cheating. Do you want to increase your salaries on our subs as usual in April”??????
1. Point of correction, my premium bouquet+ extra view subscription stands at ZMW585 and not the ZMW631 you are reporting. Therefore, the just from my current subscription to the one you are reporting is a very huge jump of about 50%.
2. We never asked for the useless channels you keep on adding to our list. Since you were the ones that found need to have them included, you foot the bill, period!
3. I thought in the past you hid the rising cost of doing business in this country by pegging subscription on the US$, such that whenever there was instability in the local currency automatic adjustments were effected. If i remember correctly, the premium subscription was pegged at $65. What happened?