DStv price increases from 2000 to 2015

Can anyone remember in which year they had two increases?
 
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With regards to the graph, SELECT is also no longer on offer – only available to subscribers still on the package.
 
I'm so glad I'm not addicted to sport.
If one had invested the cost of a DSTV Premium package from 2000 to 2014 in an investment averaging 15% growth per annum it would have grown to about R247,000.
 
Where do you get online sport streaming for free?
 
Plot your salary against inflation and see if that make sense!
 
shouldnt a service that is based off technology which should get cheaper over the years and cheaper with more uptake, become cheaper for the end users and not more expensive?
cellphone calls are cheaper
telkom adsl is cheaper
 
kevinswan007 said:
shouldnt a service that is based off technology which should get cheaper over the years and cheaper with more uptake, become cheaper for the end users and not more expensive?
cellphone calls are cheaper
telkom adsl is cheaper
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This is SAfrica
 
kevinswan007 said:
shouldnt a service that is based off technology which should get cheaper over the years and cheaper with more uptake, become cheaper for the end users and not more expensive?
cellphone calls are cheaper
telkom adsl is cheaper
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That's the point I make every year!

I can understand an increase for higher content prices (although not as much), but the tech should be a fraction of the cost now and they have achieved massive scale, which also reduces HQ and personnel costs.

The main problem is no real competition (especially around sport)
 
kevinswan007 said:
shouldnt a service that is based off technology which should get cheaper over the years and cheaper with more uptake, become cheaper for the end users and not more expensive?
cellphone calls are cheaper
telkom adsl is cheaper
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Economies of scale be dammed…
 
kevinswan007 said:
shouldnt a service that is based off technology which should get cheaper over the years and cheaper with more uptake, become cheaper for the end users and not more expensive?
cellphone calls are cheaper
telkom adsl is cheaper
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Whooa there Kevin, this is Multichoice - they have no need for your logic.
 
bwana said:
Economies of scale be dammed…
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Not really...

In paytv, you get charged a set fee per sub, so content wise dstv will have the same cost per sub whether they have 100k subs or 1million. As for the tech, their is no groundbreaking tech involved here. As for cellphone and adsl, the product here is bandwidth and it has come down for satellite too over the years. You now get more channels for the same transponder space due to better modulation and codecs. However transponder leasing, signal distribution, uplinking, playout services, encryption cost (which is per sub too), all goes up just like any other product.

THe problem with dstv is they pay big money to keep others out. CNN for example charges them, lets say 0.80 USD per sub carraige, then they go like "Thanks, but how about we pay you 1.60 usd per sub for exclusitivity. Same thing happened with ecna, that's why they can't have it on their own openview platform, they now have to wait for the exclusive period to end. Another example is the SABC R500 million debacle with dstv with also gave exclutivity to dstv.
 
rpm said:
DStv prices from 2000 to 2015

A DStv price increase is set to kick in on 1 April 2015 – this is how DStv’s prices have changed over the past 15 years
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I don't have a problem with movie repeats. However the self advertising is killing me slowly. For instance, 'Gold Rush' is quite a fun program to watch for 5 minutes at a stretch and then 15mins of ads about forthcoming features.
What is so irritating is that every non movie channel does this! its forking crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
C'mon Multichoice , stop treating us like idiots . You've got the goods, we paid for it, and you have the monopoly, so give us a break from this crap,
 
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