{"id":120578,"date":"2015-03-02T21:53:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T19:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=120578"},"modified":"2015-03-02T21:54:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T19:54:56","slug":"dstv-prices-from-2000-to-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/120578-dstv-prices-from-2000-to-2015.html","title":{"rendered":"DStv prices from 2000 to 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

MultiChoice has announced a price increase<\/strong><\/a> for its satellite pay TV platform\u00a0DStv, which is set to kick in on 1 April 2015.<\/p>\n

MultiChoice explained that the annual price increase is necessary for them to continue offering the best in local and international entertainment.<\/p>\n

The subscription fees of DStv\u2019s Premium, Extra, Compact, Select, Family, and Easy View bouquets are all set to increase<\/a><\/strong>, as is the price for PVR and XtraView Access.<\/p>\n

DStv price increases are annual occurrences, so the latest announcement should not come as a surprise to subscribers.<\/p>\n

The increases are also usually in-line with inflation, so the only real surprise might be that MultiChoice has deviated from this trend for some of its products.<\/p>\n

The price for a DStv premium service will rise from R665 to R699 per month \u2013 an increase of 5.11%.<\/p>\n

DStv Extra subscribers will pay R425 instead of R399 (6.52% increase), while DStv Compact users will fork out R319 per month, up from R295 (8.13% increase).<\/p>\n

DStv Family and DStv Select subscribers will pay R199 per month for their service \u2013 up from the current R185 per month (7.58% increase).<\/p>\n

DStv Easyview users are the hardest hit with a price increase of 34% – from R29 per month to R39 per month.<\/p>\n

There was some good news as well. Some\u00a0prices will remain unchanged, including DStv Access at R99 per month and DStv Mobile at R49 per month.<\/p>\n

The following table shows the DStv pricing from 1 April 2015.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Primary packages<\/td>\nOld price<\/td>\nNew price<\/td>\nPercentage increase<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
DStv Premium<\/td>\nR665<\/td>\nR699<\/td>\n5.11%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DStv Extra<\/td>\nR399<\/td>\nR425<\/td>\n6.52%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DStv Compact<\/td>\nR295<\/td>\nR319<\/td>\n8.13%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DStv Select<\/td>\nR185<\/td>\nR199<\/td>\n7.58%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DStv Family<\/td>\nR185<\/td>\nR199<\/td>\n7.58%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DStv Access<\/td>\nR99<\/td>\nR99<\/td>\n0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DStv Easy View<\/td>\nR29<\/td>\nR39<\/td>\n34.48%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DStv Mobile<\/td>\nR49<\/td>\nR49<\/td>\n0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
M-Net Analogue\/CSN*<\/td>\nR315<\/td>\nR335<\/td>\n6.35%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Access Fee<\/td>\nR75<\/td>\nR80<\/td>\n6.67%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
*No longer on offer – only available to subscribers still on the package.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

DStv Prices: 2000 to 2015<\/h3>\n

While some of MultiChoice\u2019s DStv products were hit by above-inflation increases, DStv Premium has not deviated significantly from inflation over the last fifteen years.<\/p>\n

As the graph below shows, the 2015 increase in DStv Premium pricing is in-line with, and remains slightly below inflation.<\/p>\n

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DStv prices versus inflation 2000-2015<\/p><\/div>\n

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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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":120242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[85,35,475,429],"class_list":["post-120578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-dstv","tag-headline","tag-multichoice","tag-price-increases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120582,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120578\/revisions\/120582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}