Bereng Mpaki
FOOD and fuel costs have gone up over the preceding months and soon your DSTV subscription will also go up.
This follows a recent announcement by MultiChoice South Africa that the cost of DSTV bouquets would go up with effect from 1 April 2017.
According to DSTV Lesotho’s Sales and Marketing Manager, Refiloe Mohlotsane, the prices for Lesotho subscribers would only be announced in the second week of March.
“We are yet to finalise the new price list for Lesotho customers. What we have started doing though is sending out letters to our customers informing them of our impending pricing increases. But we hope to release the list by the second week of March,” Ms Mohlotsane told Lesotho Times this week.
She said the price increases were caused by the high cost of sourcing programmes internationally due to the South African rand’s week exchange rate with other major currencies.
MultiChoice and M-Net buy foreign content like American shows and films and broadcasting rights for sports in United States dollars and pay certain channels on the DStv platform as part of carriage deals in the global currency.
South African DStv Premium subscribers will have to fork out M789 per month from April, a 3.95 percent increase from the M759 they were paying.
Last year, the DStv Premium price increase was a massive 8.58 percent.
DStv Extra subscribers will part with M489 from M459 — an increase of 6.53 percent. In 2016, the increase was 8 percent.
DStv Compact subscribers will, from April, pay M365 from M345 — an increase of 5.79 percent. The DStv Compact increase was 8.2 percent in 2016.
Subscribers for DStv Family face the biggest price hike from M219 to M235 — a jump of 7.3 percent.
The subscription fees for MultiChoice’s cheapest bouquet offerings; DStv Access (R99) and DStv EasyView (M29) will remain unchanged.
The monthly access fee (M85), individual rentals for DStv Box Office movies (M35) and DStv decoder insurance will also remain unchanged.
Below are the April 2017 DStv prices for South African subscribers and the percentage price hike:
