{"id":199166,"date":"2017-02-16T19:50:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T17:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=199166"},"modified":"2017-02-16T19:54:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T17:54:20","slug":"dstv-price-hikes-announced-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/199166-dstv-price-hikes-announced-2.html","title":{"rendered":"DStv price hikes announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice has announced that DStv price hikes will kick in on 1 April 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it did its best to\u00a0keep subscription fees down, despite &#8220;the tough economic climate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re committed to keep improving our offering so it gets better every year,&#8221; said DStv.<\/p>\n<p>Not all packages are affected by price increases, and the following services will not be hit\u00a0by the hikes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DStv EasyView<\/li>\n<li>DStv Access<\/li>\n<li>Access Fee<\/li>\n<li>BoxOffice rentals<\/li>\n<li>Decoder insurance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">DStv Price Hikes<\/h3>\n<div class=\"mybb_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" style=\"width: 100%;\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"7\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\" width=\"44%\">Package<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\" width=\"25%\">Current price<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\" width=\"31%\">Price from 1 April 2017<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DStv Premium<\/td>\n<td>R759<\/td>\n<td><strong>R789<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DStv Extra<\/td>\n<td>R459<\/td>\n<td><strong>R489<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DStv Compact<\/td>\n<td>R345<\/td>\n<td><strong>R365<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DStv Family<\/td>\n<td>R219<\/td>\n<td><strong>R235<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DStv Access<\/td>\n<td>R99<\/td>\n<td><strong>R99<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DStv EasyView<\/td>\n<td>R29<\/td>\n<td><strong>R29<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">DStv Add-ons<\/h3>\n<div class=\"mybb_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" style=\"width: 100%;\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"7\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\" width=\"44%\">Service<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\" width=\"25%\">Current price<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\" width=\"31%\">Price from 1 April 2017<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Access Fee<\/td>\n<td>R85<\/td>\n<td><strong>R85<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BoxOffice PVR rentals<\/td>\n<td>R35<\/td>\n<td><strong>R35<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DStv Indian<\/td>\n<td>R345<\/td>\n<td><strong>R360<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DStv Indian add-on<\/td>\n<td>R220<\/td>\n<td><strong>R229<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DStv Portuguesa<\/td>\n<td>R445<\/td>\n<td><strong>R465<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DStv Portuguesa add-on<\/td>\n<td>R220<\/td>\n<td><strong>R229<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>MultiChoice said customers can &#8220;manage their DStv costs&#8221; by making one annual\u00a0payment for the full year&#8217;s subscription and then receive\u00a0one month of DStv for free.<\/p>\n<p>Users can also &#8220;lock in&#8221; their price for two years by taking a 24-month\u00a0Price Lock deal.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/196674-showmax-is-streaming-in-full-hd-on-the-dstv-explora.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">ShowMax is streaming in Full HD on the DStv Explora<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice has announced that DStv price hikes will kick in on 1 April 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":131786,"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":[85,35,475,29806],"class_list":["post-199166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-dstv","tag-headline","tag-multichoice","tag-price-hikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199166"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199168,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199166\/revisions\/199168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}