Jostoman:
they trying on this one Oga.

how are they trying?

You cant force them to reduce their pricing.

You should first of all force the Government to first reduce cost of fuel, diesel, electricity & overall cost of doing business etc.

However, they should be forced to introduce pay-per-view.

Good one, but I pray no brown envelop exchange hand which can make the whole noise evaporate

Iykmann:
What do you mean by you can't dictate to a private business? Government has the right to regularly check the excesses of every business enterprise. it is only in Nigeria people think they have the right to add the price of goods anyhow they like.

The point is simple. If the government was able to supply steady power etc. They can dictate price control and all that. They have the right to increase their goods and services!

What about government raising tax on everything they way they like? Or are you forgetting actions and consequences?

SarkinYarki:
This is not the call of the Senate !!!! It's not their duty ..the Senate should ask NTA to deploy it's own satellite TV service to compete with DSTV

"Consumer interest" is tantamount to 'People interest" besides if people interest is not the responsibility of the senate then whose call ?

I have forgotten there name but an activist coalition that stands for consumer protection over network & cable useage are working in collaboration with the senate. i believe you agree consumers need protection

This is best news i'm hearing this year...wow!

Dollar is at 600 Naira, they buy diesel close to 700 bucks per liter, there is no light to power their equipment, so they'd be running 18hrs per day averagely on Generators, unfriendly business environment plus Taxes, the Agbada wearing Gangsters are telling them to reduce prices? Clowns.

Misplaced priority

Ghana must go(although na naija later go yesterday ) will move around the matter will be forgotten and the monopoly will continue

Tecno camon17pro 8gb 256gb is Available.....90k... the new one is 145k... with charger, carton, receipt...

A whole giant of Africa consuming South Africa services. Such a shame!

DropsMic:
Fingers crossed

They should start with NTA.

frowland:
A whole giant of Africa consuming South Africa services. Such a shame!

Shame on who, it is private business, go & start your own.

Not everyone in South Africa has Dstv, not everyone uses MTN.

For the 1000th time

This my narrative is not connected to dstv per say but I could remember vividly about a particular scenario, after subscribing my pay tv, my service had issue with their network mask that hoodlums attack their station and made away with some of their equipments. now here is my grievance with this ppl immediately I learnt about their ordeal I pleaded with them what will be the fate of their customers since we have subscribed for the month before the incidence, they said once they return back to service they will look into it.. brother & sisters as I say this service providers came back online and refuse to compensate us. That was how my one month subscription run down without been used..


I support pay as you view subscription

buckeyemedia:
Shame on who, it is private business, go & start your own.

Seems you don’t get it? Never mind.

Even multichoice no longer takes the Senate serious.

Confused people

Maxymilliano:


https://www.thecable.ng/just-in-senate-asks-multichoice-to-reduce-prices-of-dstv-gotv-packages/amp

Pnorh:
If they can comply It,... then it’s a nice development.

The Pay per View is a good development but will only be good for people that need it for just a few days( like 2 to 3 days). It will be very expensive compared to a monthly subscription.

If a Package is N9000 for one month i.e N300 per day
A pay per view package, let's say one day package for example will be around N700 per day.

A customer that subscribes for 13 days( pay per view) in a month would spend N9100, that's N100 more than someone who enjoyed a 30-day bulk subscription at N9000.

The same analysis goes for pay per hour, pay per minute, pay per second view.

The provider will eventually make more money because a lot of customers that can't get bulk sum to pay for monthly subscription will subscribe to pay per view everytime they have small funds.

While they are at it, why not dictate then prices of kpomo, goat meat, beef, onions, gucci handbags, and everything else.

frowland:


Seems you don’t get it? Never mind.

Stateside one needs Direct TV & cable to be on point, DSTV shows everything, Showtime, HBO, most especially pay per view boxing is free on Dstv.

Yankee $49.99.

Dstv you also get to watch all the Premiership matches.

Respect Dstv.

Now their money don finish. Oya DSTV do the needful and shut their mouth with huge alerts till another 2 years

sinola:
This is best news i'm hearing this year...wow!

News we have been hearing for the past 15 years.

That's what they use to say doing COVID tym something like that was seld and d house summon d mutichuce MD he did not answer he sends he av COVID den till new nothing as b don abeg make una no full us there is corruptions in dat department ther is some people that are eating from them, if they can do it like that it will b better coz our electricity is not good in dis country

Everything in the helm of rulership in Nigeria are just scam, how can you tell people doing business to reduce price and run at loss, while you people who increased every commodity that made it so will keep on increasing the prices. At present we don't have house of assembly what we have is yes-men and rubber stamp.

They need make a law that makes it impossible for any pay tv to have exclusive broadcasting rights over any program except it's an event. That way other people to access rights to sports stations that dstv enjoys monopoly and it will make room for choices by the consumers.

This is a call to collect their cut

After cut, they would be placed on premium package for free, then the matter go die and they will replay it the following year

Na people wen still dey dstv I feel for

Spending money with little return

I am still enjoying tstv, 100 hundred channel for more than 3 months I have not paid a dime

Tstv dey do us honeymoon

For real was FG asking??

Same FG that sad they would launch a New NiG-sat soon ??

which kind mumu ask be this, direct them to do it, or they lose their license,

what nonsense

Hezzyluv:
Could that be the reason Chanel 29 (Nigeria Idol) just disappeared from Gotv without explanations

Again, what Senate are doing is misplaced priority. They supposed to think of a way to make this thin be pay as you go.

Multichoice level of exploitation na promax.


If not for that their monopoly on EPL, wetin concern person concern DStv

it disappeared on DStv too

buckeyemedia:
Stateside one needs Direct TV & cable to be on point, DSTV shows everything, Showtime, HBO, most especially pay per view boxing is free on Dstv.

Yankee $49.99.

Dstv you also get to watch all the Premiership matches.

Respect Dstv.

You still don’t get it! Anyway’