{"id":527213,"date":"2024-03-01T15:44:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T13:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=527213"},"modified":"2024-03-01T16:04:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T14:04:04","slug":"dstv-prices-against-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/527213-dstv-prices-against-inflation.html","title":{"rendered":"DStv prices against inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"

MultiChoice announced its annual price adjustments for DStv<\/strong><\/a> last month, with the fees of most packages set to increase from 1 April 2024.<\/p>\n

Monthly fees for DStv will go up by between R10 and R50 per month, translating to increases of 3.1% to 7.8%.<\/p>\n

Statistics South Africa has determined that the average inflation for 2023 was 5.95%.<\/p>\n

DStv Premium subscriptions will increase by 5.7%, from R879 to R929 per month.<\/p>\n

DStv Compact Plus was one of two above-inflationary increases, with its monthly fee going up by 6.9% from R579 to R619.<\/p>\n

However, DStv Access will see the biggest increase at 7.8%, with its subscription going from R129 to R139 per month.<\/p>\n

MultiChoice explained that DStv Access subscribers would also receive a major upgrade to its sports offering in the form of La Liga football.<\/p>\n

DStv Compact and DStv Family received the smallest increases of 4.5% and 3.1%, respectively.<\/p>\n

A DStv Compact subscription will soon increase from R449 to R469 per month, while DStv Family will rise from R319 to R329.<\/p>\n

The price of DStv EasyView will remain unchanged at R29 per month.<\/p>\n

DStv EasyView has been R29 per month since increasing from R20 per month in 2013. MultiChoice briefly increased it to R39 in 2015, but decreased it again in 2016.<\/p>\n

The following graphs show how the price increases of DStv Premium and DStv Access compare relative to inflation.<\/p>\n

We have data for DStv Premium dating back to 2000, and the inflation benchmark is calculated from that year.<\/p>\n

MultiChoice first launched DStv Access<\/strong><\/a> in 2010 \u2014 then branded as \u201cDStv Lite\u201d \u2014 for R99 per month.<\/p>\n

It rebranded the product<\/strong><\/a> in 2013, keeping the price unchanged.<\/p>\n

DStv Access remained R99 until 2019, when it was increased to R105 per month.<\/p>\n

Since then, MultiChoice has increased the price DStv Access every year along with most of its other packages.<\/p>\n

DStv Premium inflation benchmark \u2014 2000 to 2024<\/h2>\n

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DStv Access inflation benchmark \u2014 2010 to 2024<\/h2>\n

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This is how DStv’s annual price increases compare to inflation over the past 24 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":441746,"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":[85,19137,12747,35,475],"class_list":["post-527213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-dstv","tag-dstv-access","tag-dstv-premium","tag-headline","tag-multichoice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527213"}],"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=527213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}