DStv price freeze challenged by MultiChoice

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DStv price freeze challenged by MultiChoice

MultiChoice is challenging a ruling by the Federal High Court in Abuja which prevents MultiChoice Nigeria from increasing its DStv subscription prices.

MultiChoice Nigeria planned to increase the price of its DStv packages in the country on 1 August 2018, with increases ranging between 5.26% and 7.95%.
 
At least the Nigerian populace is actually contesting this instead of sitting on their backsides and accepting it as a fact of life
 
Why is the Nigerian Government interfering with the free market? Let DStv increase prices by 50%! It opens the door for another player to offer an alternative.

That said: what I don't like about MC's conduct is that they went to our Sunday press last week and punted job losses due to declining revenue which is a ploy to get Government involved in assisting them to stifle-off competition from Netflix and others by introducing regulation.
 
Are they trying to raise prices elsewhere to help with their losses this side? I hope they get rekt in court to be honest.
 
PhireSide said:
At least the Nigerian populace is actually contesting this instead of sitting on their backsides and accepting it as a fact of life
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And praying that their door doesn't get kicked down in the middle of the night by some SS wannabees.
 
Multichoice is essentially a South African company so the question we should also be asking is, why is Nigeria paying so much less than South Africans in the first place? (Do a conversion from NGN (Nigerian Naira) to ZAR and you'll see what I mean)
 
I cant believe the MC is not realising the damage they continue to cause themselves by crying foul about almost everything to the press and public. Consumers warned them, the market warned them, and they still flipped everyone the bird. Personally cannot wait for them to be done and finished now. Even if I wanted to subscribe to DSTV, I wouldn't because they are whinging about competition and the choice of the consumer. Such a disgraceful company...really.
 
graybeard said:
Multichoice is essentially a South African company so the question we should also be asking is, why is Nigeria paying so much less than South Africans in the first place? (Do a conversion from NGN (Nigerian Naira) to ZAR and you'll see what I mean)
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Why does being a SA company matter? It is a free market, they charge what the market can take. If you ask them though they'll tell you that Nigeria's packages are less than SA's in terms of content and channels, which is true but they do charge more than SA in other parts of Africa for the same packages.
 
So Nigerians only pay R613.36 per month for premium? So glad i'm dstv free for 5 years now.
 
R, of course it matters. After all, they are the ones whining and bleating about foreign companies such as Netflix et al hitting on their turf...
 
PhireSide said:
At least the Nigerian populace is actually contesting this instead of sitting on their backsides and accepting it as a fact of life
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Not the populace, it's the government. I would rather have the personal freedom that dstv can charge whatever they want and I can choose to pirate everything including sport rather than government price controls.
 
I'm sure large international companies will start considering their investments with Nigeria. MTN now DSTV....
 
Wall said:
I'm sure large international companies will start considering their investments with Nigeria. MTN now DSTV....
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They will just reassess their strategies. The market is too big there to not go in. Its high risk for sure, but so is most of Africa for various reasons.

The Nigerian government is also being a bit cocky, because they know companies want to do business in Nigeria purely due to the volumes of consumers - one day though, this will come to an end when platform agnostic services take over (think streaming, blockchain etc.), but then they will regulate that until someone thinks of a way to circumvent the regulator.
 
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