MTN has informed subscribers of streaming service VU that it is shutting it down.<\/p>\n
MTN VU will shut down\u00a0on 3 May 2017.<\/p>\n
“Thank you for enjoying some of the world’s best entertainment with us,” said MTN.<\/p>\n
VU launched\u00a0on 30 December 2014 as MTN FrontRow<\/a><\/strong>, charging a\u00a0subscription fee of R179 per month. It also offered movie rentals.<\/p>\n It later rebranded as VU<\/a><\/strong> and dropped its subscription fee to R99 to compete with ShowMax and Netflix.<\/p>\n News of VU closing comes days before Discover Digital, the company which\u00a0operates the service, plans to launch DEOD<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0– its Netflix and DStv competitor.<\/p>\n DEOD\u00a0is expected to offer sports and premium entertainment for a monthly subscription fee of under\u00a0R200.<\/p>\n MTN has informed subscribers of streaming service VU that it is shutting it down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":148133,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[24714,35,39797],"class_list":["post-208894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-discover-digital","tag-headline","tag-mtn-vu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208894"}],"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=208894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208898,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208894\/revisions\/208898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Netflix refuses to pay the FPB\u2019s R795,000 licensing fee<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"