MultiChoice faces down shrinking rival pool

all the more reason for customers to boycott Multichoice until they bring in some sane pricing and logical channel bundling (bouquets).
 
Nothing with break multichoice.

How do you come into the market and take them on? The sports side of multichoice is world class and another company would have to move the focus away from sport and how many people actually have dstv and do not watch sport? 10% maybe less.
 
killadoob said:
Nothing with break multichoice.

How do you come into the market and take them on? The sports side of multichoice is world class and another company would have to move the focus away from sport and how many people actually have dstv and do not watch sport? 10% maybe less.
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But you're assuming that they would need to take market share from multichoice. In reality there are three markets:
1) Those who have dstv and would replace it with a new provider
2) Those who don't have dstvbut would sign up with a new provider (possibly because they're not interested in all the sport on dstv)
3) Those who have dstv but would sign up with a new provider as well

It all depends on what they offer; I'd suspect group 3 would be quite small, but if they got some must-have channels to compete with dstv's must-have channels, I could see people getting both.
 
The biggest problem is that MC have signed exclusive rights with just about all the content providers. This creates a problem for anybody that would like to get into the local market, as they wouldn't be able get the popular content from the big players. ICASA could have played a part in this, in order to prevent exclusive deals with content providers by anyone who would like to provide content to SA.
 
Garyvdh said:
all the more reason for customers to boycott Multichoice until they bring in some sane pricing and logical channel bundling (bouquets).
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people who are fed up with monochoice should pain their satelites Orange or something:P

Alot of people have satelites against their houses, but it doesn't mean they are using them anymore. It should be a good show of how sattisfied people are with their offerings.


edit: Good thinking NaushadE
 
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Here's a brainwave- why doesn't someone from bskyb come over to south africa. Buy off the license from telkom media who seem very incompetent. And launch sky south africa. Immediately mc's exclusive rights on soccer will be squashed. Plus they'll DEFINATELY come out with HD services at launch and that'll be the draw for subscribers. Cant understand why a local player hasn't approached them. Its so silly and ridiculous. Poison ivy took so long to approve the license that she virtually entrenched mc's monopoly on everything in the tv entertainment sector. Cant court action be taken by the players involved to say that its monopolistic and not in the best interests of the consumer to have one dominant player in the industry. Take sky's monopoly on epl soccer that was broken by the regulator after itv and others objected. Just a thought.
 
I thought it was odd that Telkom would attempt something where there was competition.
 
I do

killadoob said:
Nothing will break multichoice.
How do you come into the market and take them on? The sports side of multichoice is world class and another company would have to move the focus away from sport and how many people actually have dstv and do not watch sport? 10% maybe less.
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Lone little guy at the back puts his hand up :D

( Does not have DsTV -- watches cricket some times )

IF they had a small bouquet with History , Discovery, NG , SF , BBC , ENews and some other similar stuff for about R100 I would sign tomorrow.

But then again -- as I said -- I am just one lonely guy sitting at the back :D


MW
 
We in SA get both ends of the market, analogue and satellite. It would make a big difference if the middle market could be covered by cable services, but that we all know will not happen in this country in a long time.

PS. Please fix the spelling in the article. It's Multichoice not Mutlichoice
 
In another thread the challenge was raised to boycott Multichoice - but the general feeling I got from that was that most people will happily pay their levies to Multichoice and not do anything because they don't want to miss watching their precious sport.
 
If they have decent content I would join tomorrow. Don't really care about the sport. Want all the BBC stuff, discovery, some movies and maybe SET. That's it. Why am I paying almost R500 for this?

P.S. I actually blame the SABC for this. Every year when they get outbid by MC for the soccer their CEO puts on his shocked face and can't believe it. If they had more channels and some decent content we wouldn't have to pay huge amounts of money for satellite...
 
Opiate of the Masses

The_Librarian said:
In another thread the challenge was raised to boycott Multichoice - but the general feeling I got from that was that most people will happily pay their levies to Multichoice and not do anything because they don't want to miss watching their precious sport.
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I think that Marx -- Engels --Lenin -- Stalin got it slightly wrong when refering to RELIGION as the "Opiate of the Masses" -- or asking how many Battalions the POPE had at his command.

It is quite clear that in SA -- SPORT is the "Opiate of the Masses"

The authors of the "Protocols" clearly understood this.
They knew a bit of ROMAN History (and not just MASADA) -- that bit that dealt specifically with the "COLLOSEUM" -- and the "GAMES"

Some say it was lead in the pipes , others intenal corruption , others the BARBARIANS at the gates of Rome. :confused:

IT was really extreme expenditure on the "Opiate of the Masses" -- free entry to the "GAMES" done to stop them thinking much about the decline of the EMPIRE

"Science-Fiction" -- MAYBE -- but we all know what happened to the Roman Empire

( Some parasites live in happy symbiosis -- others tend to kill their host -- some quite quickly -- like EBOLA )


the OBTUSE one:rolleyes:
 
pkid said:
If they have decent content I would join tomorrow. Don't really care about the sport. Want all the BBC stuff, discovery, some movies and maybe SET. That's it. Why am I paying almost R500 for this?

P.S. I actually blame the SABC for this. Every year when they get outbid by MC for the soccer their CEO puts on his shocked face and can't believe it. If they had more channels and some decent content we wouldn't have to pay huge amounts of money for satellite...
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Even the terrestrial channels seem to be in decline. With SABC2 bankrupt and e-TV either showing ancient movies, porn or shady gameshow.
 
I'm sure if a new entrant comes to the market and outbids mc for the soccer you'll practically 3/4 of mc subscriber base eroding. The main drawcard for many ppl is the epl. But then u end up like gtv and go bankrupt and back in mc hands
 
The biggest reason MC is doing so well and why I will not stop paying my DSTV is because the SABC sucks so bad. If they weren't so bad I might be able to stop using DSTV for a month or 2 to make a point, but with the current state of SABC I can't even bare 1 day of their filfth.
 
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