How many DStv Premium subscribers MultiChoice has lost since 2015

How many of these loses can also be attributed to emigration? As I'm seeing more and more people emigrating.
 
Lupus said:
How many of these loses can also be attributed to emigration? As I'm seeing more and more people emigrating.
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Doubt it, DSTV have a multi cultural audience. I cancelled mine years ago because it was a rip off. Their model is hopelessly outdated. Those calling for a sports only package can expect to pay around the same that they are paying for a premium service, sports is their bread and butter and they ain't letting that go cheaply.
 
Lupus said:
How many of these loses can also be attributed to emigration? As I'm seeing more and more people emigrating.
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Nah it’s not that. This is pure unsubscribe numbers, rather than moving overseas. Problem with Multichoice right now is that they refuse to look at the bigger picture here, and refuse to move with the times. They will only suffer more, once more fiber is rolled out, and the prices of data decreases
 
Can we remove the "because of Netflix" in the pity party. There are numerous streaming services available, not just Netflix. Why don't they rather say, they lost subscribers because of the internet, or better, because of competition. Fair economy.
 
Wasp_21 said:
Can we remove the "because of Netflix" in the pity party. There are numerous streaming services available, not just Netflix. Why don't they rather say, they lost subscribers because of the internet, or better, because of competition. Fair economy.
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Problem is, they aren't really losing subscribers because of competition, I would peg those numbers at maybe 10% of their losses.. the vast majority is purely down to affordability at this moment.
 
Agreed. Also left DSTV years ago purely due to affordability. No other reason. Even before mainstream uncapped internet was available.
 
I stayed with them for quite a stretch of time mainly because of the sports, and convenience.
But, as above, affordability saw to it that I ended up dumping them.
 
Forcing people to upgrade decoders soon is going to add nicely to that number. With internet streaming the hardware fleecing era is over. Die die die.
 
Never had DSTV Premium. Still rocking the cheap ass "Family" package @ R249.

My old man will never will never drop Premium, too much of a sport lover.
 
I cancelled a few years ago because of the cost.

Now have Netflix, Amazon, and a few others for about half the cost of DSTV Premium.
 
So 430000 people dropped their premium packages since March 2015... So lets assume everyone just went to the lower Compact Plus package, that means DSTV has lost 430000 X R300... Thats a whopping R129 Million PER MONTH!!! And still they cant see that people are ditching their services because of poor value for money....
I never had Premium, I did have the Select package though, was very happy with it until DSTV decided to scrap the package and started removing channels from the package and not replacing them with other channels, trying to force you to move to another package (none of which included the same channels for roughly the same price)... I cancelled my subscription last year because it just was not worth it any longer, added the R300 to my monthly internet budget and now download and stream whatever I like to watch with no repeats or stupid ads...
They have to realise that they are not the only option any more and that they cant continue to rip people off.
 
Icemanbrfc said:
dont understand Multichoice strategy here. Instead of increasing prices and losing customers, why not reduce pricing and increase the numbers significantly... Weired company is Naspers
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It's the SA monopoly way.

Same schit Telkom tried pulling, same schit Eskom is pulling - and look where they are now...
 
The time has come for MultiChoice to give people more control of their packages - classic 'adapt or perish'

Allowing subscribers to choose which channels they want to access & pay only for those channels.

Why should a person only wanting to watch rugby be forced to pay for a premium package ?
Why can't we 'cherry-pick' what we want and leave the rest out ?

Price each channel according to the cost of content ( & popularity ? )
- for e.g. MC may need to charge more for SS1 to cover Rugby rights costs.

Service to poorer subscribers could be ensured by designating certain channels as 'free' channels - and which a subscriber would qualify for - according to how many paid channels are selected.
for e.g.: allow 1 'free' channel ( of one's own choice ) for every 6 paid channels selected.
 
EasyComs said:
Why should a person only wanting to watch rugby be forced to pay for a premium package ?
Why can't we 'cherry-pick' what we want and leave the rest out ?
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I agree, but it's highly unlikely that they'll even consider unbundling the sports. And if they do, no doubt they will charge a premium rate for a sports-only package. So in the end it's just not worth it.
 
EasyComs said:
The time has come for MultiChoice to give people more control of their packages - classic 'adapt or perish'

Allowing subscribers to choose which channels they want to access & pay only for those channels.

Why should a person only wanting to watch rugby be forced to pay for a premium package ?
Why can't we 'cherry-pick' what we want and leave the rest out ?

Price each channel according to the cost of content ( & popularity ? )
- for e.g. MC may need to charge more for SS1 to cover Rugby rights costs.

Service to poorer subscribers could be ensured by designating certain channels as 'free' channels - and which a subscriber would qualify for - according to how many paid channels are selected.
for e.g.: allow 1 'free' channel ( of one's own choice ) for every 6 paid channels selected.
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Because Multichoice/DSTV are focused on money money money and fleecing the consumer. Its never been about what WE actually want. Its a monopoly.
 
Vernon said:
I agree, but it's highly unlikely that they'll even consider unbundling the sports. And if they do, no doubt they will charge a premium rate for a sports-only package. So in the end it's just not worth it.
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In theory, if you know somebody with a premium package, then you, the premium owner, somebody else could split that cost. So you stream, can still watch all the sports channels for not much.
 
Icemanbrfc said:
dont understand Multichoice strategy here. Instead of increasing prices and losing customers, why not reduce pricing and increase the numbers significantly... Weired company is Naspers
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Naspers shareholders are only interested in leeching off Tencent shares and really don't give a toss about anything else.
 
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