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urfriend:@urfriend Does it mean we are going to be paying extra for any audio channels? You said we should enjoy it while its free. Is it not your content? |
@Kazuya Take it easy. Let it not appear as if you are actually praying for their failure. The good book(bible) says we shouldnt rejoice at the misfortune of others even our percieved enemies. On the contrary, we must not let it fail. Lot of us have family and friends working there. |
I dont think it would download the whole channels again. Maybe just any new additional ones. I am thinking it downloaded all those channels because you previously had the 26 or so channels before doing the manual scan which resulted in the duplication. If am wrong, then lets wait for urfreind to come clear it up ![]() |
ilugunboy:LoL , Ok, let me seeee. I think I heard someone in abuja has it. Lets send Emissaries over there. And if he refuses, lets hit him over the head with our hitv and DSTV decoders. You know we just have to have that Daarsat ![]() |
Ok, now you have brought that up. Take a look at this link which the google link brought up : http://boards.thenest.com/boards/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=13471918 . The third post on that page is a post by a Chase worker replying to a customer's rants and complaints. You said that you personally do not respond to negative views you read about your business, but some serious situations warrant that other people get so concerned about their own company's image that they just have to respond. BTW, sorry for referring to you as bro |
@urfriend Yes, the picture quality of the hi channels have improved. I scanned very early in the morning and at first didnt notice the improvement. But right now, the audio on my Foxnews is off. What could be the problem? @Maskuraid I get up to 96-98 percent on the 12130 frequency and 85-90 percent on the 11900 frequency. Maybe its your dish alignment. |
Animax Africa is on. However the picture quality hasnt improved on the hi channels. Cant get to sleep. Awake and looking at the two screens (My Tv and my computer screens) *edit* On closer look, it seems there is a little improvement on the picture quality in the hi channels |
@laniks This is Nigeria bro. There is a need for them to clear up the bad press they are getting. This is a huge, well trafficked site. Google and every major search engine would have crawled and gathered all these posts. You can imagine if you are a Bank and someone just does a generic search for banks in Nigeria and a thread about dissatisfied customers of your bank shows up. Someone mentioned that he saw a slot on CNN where Nigerian 'failing banks' was being discussed.Do you think its a coincidence that it was happening just at the time this thread started generating the heat in papers? Its the internet dude, everyone reads everything about every other person. People should learn to think outside the box. People in Chase have not had a large forum or thread started where a lot of negative press about them is discussed. If they do, they will definitely come in and say their bit. They are doing some damage control here and you can tell from the tone of the customers that they are beginning to cool down. The reason so many customers found this as an opportunity to speak is that so many customer care requests were not dealt with properly. Just let a customer of Chase as you say go to a large forum abroad to complain about services so much that newspapers report it and lets see if the management of chase wont have staffers join that forum to defend the company. I wonder how they can get sacked for defending the integrity of their work places. What are you talking about? |
shamass77:This is about the silliest thing I have read from a spokesperson of a company. Before we got Hitv, their office at Ebutte Metta had a large screen Tv with the channels on display. Before I subscribed, I went there and confirmed that the channels were showing and surprisingly then, the picture quality was very good when they were on Terrestrial. They also directed people to different authorized dealers all around lagos who ,also had the package for view at their offices. You can not answer simple questions as to who and where your authorised dealers are in Lagos and you want people to believe your stories. So far its only Doyin from UK who has come in to say he/she has seen Ait programs in UK. Check out all the hitv and Dstv and even trend tv threads and you would see so many subscribers(satisfied or not) speaking on their experiences. What a joke |
lamex22:Good for you. Next, you look at all the other issues raised here and work on them. Thats the best way to go about it and not to send staff in here to exchange insults with customers.That would make matters worse. Dont underestimate the far-reaching consequencies of the posts on this forum. So like so many other companies, use this as an avenue to feel the pulse of your customers and change in the areas that are wanting. |
tuborme:Thank you! Thank you for this post. Lot of the issues you highlighted are key to our moving forward. On the IBPLC bit, some of the pro intercontinental posts are not staff of IBPLC but majority of those with 2- 3 posts are. But they must understand that some of us are posting not because we want IBPLC to fail but because, as current customers, we are less than satisfied with the services we are getting coupled with all the hidden charges. So people, we dont want IBPLC to fail. What would all the workers there do. I have two close friends there. Rather they should retrace their steps and clean up in those areas that a lot of people here have complained. Namely, the 50 naira for each ATM withdrawal, delivery of Statements(at least via email). I dont have to threaten and fight to receive my statement of account. Dont be sneaking in charges everywhere for crying out loud. For a current account that has COT on it, you are talking about account maintenance charges. What is going on? |
maskuraid:@maskuraid It should. I dont know much but it should since its able to get from two different sources, it should be able to do that. But, i think i need to call him up again and find out things myself. |
samparian:My brother, Its because they(GTB) are good in mordern day banking. And they make sure that what they charge you for using atm, mastercard transactions, and the Gconnect are so little that its almost insignificant. Before I got my Mastercard from GTB three years ago, I went to ECOBANK, standard trust(just before the mutation into UBA) and IBPLC( i was already a customer). ECOBANK said i needed to have up to a thousand dollars before they could start processing plus some other stringent terms and charges. Intercontinental told me i could only get a mastercard with about 1500 dollars and then there was some other things i had to have and my getting it was strictly linked with my current account with them. All in all very cumbersome and stringent measures(pls note that it has changed now). Standard trust bank was the only one that was cheapest to open cause they said i could open it with 250 dollars but i was told i couldnt make online transactions with it just like ECOBANK also said. I was amazed cause why else would i be looking for their mastercard.Either they were misinformed about their own product or just didnt know what they were doing back then. GTBank on the other hand opened my Dom account to go with my Mastercard the same day(after i brought the required docs). My mastercard was opened with just 250 dollars and i added another 250 dollars for the DOM account. Suffice to say that i used my mastercard the next couple of days for online payment. So they didnt sponsor anything. If people are happy with you, they would speak out and if they are not, as in this IBPLC case, they will also speak out, howbeit negatively. Having said that, GTBank also has its own problem. Their ATM machine is about the most problematic in town. Lot of times its not dispensing funds or it would not be communicating with server. Asides that, nothing else i have noticed. But they wont charge you 50 naira for each atm withdrawal. |
My installer told me last week that its still available. Its 15k as he says. Strong brand decoder. I wanted to post his number here but decided against it for obvious reasons. If you have a mail that you use for online stuff, you can post it here and i will send his number to you. |
@OYIBN If am not mistaken, DSTV airs 'Discovery channel' here to Nigerian viewers. Hitv airs 'Discovery world'. They are both different with different content. Hitv's Discovery world airs FBI files. Am certain about that. |
Nothing will happen to your money there in the next three months. I think the issue here is their tendency to introduce hidden charges and not that they are distressed. |
People expressing their dissatisfaction is not a smear campaign. All IBPLC needs to do is take a good look at this bad publicity and change. In my own post, I said they were not in distress nor were they going down but people deserve to be heard. A lot of people posting here would have preferred for it to be better with IBPLC and thats why people are planning to move funds but not close their accounts with them permanently. Havent you read of those who have written to them about their grieviances and were not replied nor the issues addressed. Its only a public outcry like this that get institutions to change. Without the bad publicity like this one, they wont change. A lot of other companies have changed some of their wrong ways because of something like this. Other Banks like Zenith and other companies have rather used such a forum to gather customer grieviances and work towards changing. So its not good enough to move quietly. You just dont move quietly with all the wrong doings. They have got to read and learn. |
First of all people, I dont think Intercontinental is distressed and they are not going down anytime soon. But being a customer myself, I can tell you that am less than impressed with them. I have a personal current account with GTB and a Corporate current account with Intercontinental bank but I am in the process of moving my corporate current to GTB as well. Everything Intercontinental does, is for the purpose of getting money out of the unsuspecting customer. Can you imagine being charged 50 naira for using ATM with your own bank? Thats Criminal. You may say that 50 naira is small money but it adds up. You cannot collect less than 100k now over the counter and you must use ATM. I magine using your ATM 5 times in a day. How much would that take from your account? Remember the limit you can take at the ATM at a time is 20k. What about the alerts? GTB gives me alerts with vital Information that you really need. Lets compare the GTBank(and other banks alert) with the IBPLC alert: IBPLC: DebitAlert! NGN 20,000 was debit from your account xxxx on 14-mar-2009 . Cash withdrawal un us. What nonsense is this? I know I collected money and I know when the vital info i need is what is left in my account after that transaction. Now GTBank( and other banks) alert: Transaction notification: NGN 10000.00 CR(CASH DEPOSIT FROM XYZ) ON acct number xxxx. Your balance is NGN567899 . The balance is one of the very vital info why people even subscribe to alerts. But it seems IBPLC would rather you not have any info about your account balance till they have murdered you with all their hidden charges. To think that they charge you ten naira for anytime they send this useless info in alerts is heart-wrenching. What about getting your statement? Its like going for a visa where IBPLC is concerend. Normarly, a bank should send your statements if not phisically, then at least electronically via emal(which is also what GTB and others do). But IBPLC will make you beg and threaten and sue for your statement. If they are not intentionaly criminal in their dealings, then they must know that thats how they come across to people. Have you tried to get a new cheque book from IBPLC? Theirs is the most expensive across the industry. Dont take my word for it. Do your own research. Find out what others like GTB and Diamond and skye charge for a new cheque book 50/100 leaves and compare it with what IBPLC charges. There is so much that when you think about it, you ask yourself the reason why you are using them. People are sucked in because IBPLC gives out loans but do you know that their interest rates are the highest in the industry? As at the time others were in the area of 21-22 late last year, IBPLC was hitting 26-28. I am a customer here saying all i know so no one should come in and tell me i work for another bank and trying to bring them down. Having said these, I dont think they are in distress but they are just a people that believe they can do anything and get away with it. But they must realise that when so many people are dissatisfied with them that time is running out on them.I will just remove all my money and leave about 600naira. Among my two sisters, one has already done the above that i plan to do. The other one plans to close down the account by next week. This should be a cause for concern for them. But of course, they will be busy collecting all the 50 nairas atm awoof and all the other hidden charges till its too late and everyone would have wisened up and left them. |
The reporter or the producer of that documentary has probably not been to Mumbai(India), or is just being terribly biased. A challenging place to work and live in no doubt, but the worst place on earth to work? Thats a whole load of crap. If it were that bad, they would not be working here no matter the pay they are offered and we wont have so many of them working their papers to come in(Ask immigration service companies). Indians and chinese and eastern europeans find it easy working here. Thats because, they have seen things like this before. The core westerners also, can blend in with a few additional conveniences and luxuries. They have more important things to talk about at this time. Like somone pointed out, their criminals in suites that have put the whole world in a mess right now. You can Imagine if madoff was Nigerian or if Merryl Lynch, Lehman brothers and the rest of the companies were Nigerian concerns. They would have written for Nigeria to be cut off from the rest of the world businesswise. |
Its Will Smith. And like sniper said, Foxx always plays a supporting role and Will the major roles. This is also a major pointer to the fact that Will is "it" for movie directors and producers. |
@OYIBN Am happy you are now seeing what we all have seen about Daarsat. In the "Daarsat and Hitv possible merger" thread, I posted that the one in danger of going down is daarsat and not hitv. I mean, you just dont do business the way they are doing. In a post of yours in hitv or hirubbish thread, you mentioned that Daarsat may have a target audience(maybe high income earners) but the sudden 18k rumour here indicates that their price regime was just an ill-advised and ill-conceived one. Am not sure you are based in Naija cause if you were, you would be more sorry for daarsat and not hitv. Pay no mind to all the publicity stunts and stories. Daarsat went to the stock market to raise money. Thats what people always point to when they say that they have the funds. But people also forget that its human beings that invested that money and human beings are very impatient. Some months without commensurate and significant increase in subscriber base for Daarsat , and the pressure will be on from investors. There are many freelance satellite/cable installers in nairaland(a set of people that have helped in the growth of hitv ). Though they have their various issues about hitv, they wont even discuss Daarsat. That shows you how bad it is. The channels that they mention that they have, eg, Foxlife and foxcrime, are very good stations on their own but right now, no one has really confirmed if they are really on. But even if they are really on, its really a hard sell for people to buy equipment at the costs that daarsat are offering them. Can you imagine where you are referred to Abuja for any vital information about their services? Can you imagine that the nearest place in Lagos that they can refer you to is Alagbado for simple viewing of their channels or offerings? No resellers, no authorized dealers? Does that not strike you as a business that is begging to fail? Hitv have got all the football for now. Champions league has come on board. No matter what anyone says, hitv is going to get a lot more subscribers when the champions league start. Yes, they would have gotten much more if they had more channels but right now, this is the way the cookie crumbles untill the time that Daarsat can wrest the license from their hands(which is not likely. Only Dstv can do that.Right now, daarsat does not have the funds for that after so much spending). So all in all, Daarsat needs a total restructuring and repackaging. I know Shammazz will soon jump in with half-bit information and refutation. But its all in black and white for all to see. |
OYIBN:@OYIBN When I say no one is viewing/subscribing, surely you must know that it doesnt mean that no single person is subscribing. I used it figuratively. When compared with all the noise and billions and best equipment, they should be doing better at subscriptions. And yes, i know they are not doing well in that area(subscriptions). Anyways, their representative, Shammazz, mentioned yesterday in another thread here: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-246330.0.html that Daarsat is now 18k(But as usual with them, no information nor explanation nor where to get it). Wouldnt you call that panic on the part of Daarsat as well? On the other hand I think we all agree that Hitv is doing poorly in the area of foreign channels and content. They were advertising movies at 8pm for a long while and when the day came for Troy, guess what? There was no sound for most part of the movie. I was beside myself with amazement. I thought, does it mean they are not watching what they are giving us? Some of their issues are just plain embarrassing. Once again, Hitv, there is no point bringing five movies that will get to be reshuffled for the next few months. Movies that were so popular 3-4years back that we all would have watched them a number of times before. Just work hard at signing a foreign movie channel period. If you have to get movies the way you are doing, dont go for those ones that were soo popular at the galleria 3-4yrs back. Just doesnt make sense. |
SATMAN:Hear ye, hear ye, Am even surprised you could find someone or somewhere to view it. And their representatives keep talking about knocking Hitv out of business. Like I said earlier , with their expensive equipment, it translates to nothing if no one is subscribing. On the other hand, urfriend, Rahym and co, please dont be saying that you have 25 channels. You should be ashamed to name Biscom and Dove media as your channels. What you have are about 22 and half channels. Dove media and Biscom dont even qualify to be broadcast to people as FTA. So please, dont get us so pissed by mentioning those things as channels. |
@urfriend, It seems like we are back to the coming soon of last yr. This is a new year for goodness sake. |
@ Ilugunboy, you have re-echoed all my feelings about the Daarsat business and all the chit-chat about merger possibilities. I live in a really populated area of surulere and people are still subscribing to pay tv . And to be very honest with you, people are subscribing in this order, Hitv, Dstv, Mytv, trend tv. I havent seen anyone mention that they are going for Daarsat nor even say that they are planning to. They should ask themselves why. I am someone who makes it my business to find out about things. And these are my findings. Hitv are riding on the back of football but they would be playing with fire if they continue. In my own opinion, if Daarsat likes, they can get 55 quality channels. If no one subscribes to tell others about it, they will just be there looking at their own expensive equipment. Yes, they say its the latest technology but is dstv using that their HD technology here in Nigeria? Are people not still enjoying quality content and pictures on Dstv? When you tell someone that prospects to subscribe to your services that his initial setup cost is about 50k, the person would not wait to hear the remaining story about the latest technology you have. Where is the information from them. They will tell you to go to Alagbado. Where are their approved installers and resellers? No info. Does that not tell you that maybe, just maybe, those installers and resellers just didnt bother. For your info, a lot of those guys at thr FTA thread are in the business so you will understand what am saying. So bottomline is that its not about how much money they have but how well their business model can move them like Ilugunboy mentioned. On another note it seems everyone is responding to the need for more and better content. Even SET. They have started with a website change at www.settv.co.za plus some good movies for this march. |
This should not even be an option. Dont you guys like competition? When we had only Telcos like Intercellular in Nigeria, mobile phones were only for the rich and going for around 190k(If you can even smell it). When the other Telcos entered and brought some competition, the prices fell, then came the GSM and the rest they say, is history. What would you want to be creating in the merger of these two? A monopoly, which is not what we need. Contrary to what most of you guys think, Daarsat is the one in danger here of going down. Yes they have invested billions in equipment , so what? Who is watching the equipment? You can even confirm this by what the inside man, Shamass said and i quote "I SUGGEST YOU GUYS VISIT DAARSAT HQS ON KPADUMA HILLS IN ASOKORO ABUJA FOR MORE , SEEING IS BELIEVING" . Do I have to go to Abuja tp your headquarters to see your offerings? Where and who are your dealers in Lagos? When asked, you guys will say people should travel to alagbado, your office to view your offerings and maybe subscribe. You guys aint serious. What about the website, does that look like a business that has kicked off in the Sattelite tv business? How much is your package? One needs at least 50k to get connected(if its not so, pls come in and break it down for us to know). How many Nigerians , in this times, will be willing to spend that amount to get connected? Small wonder we have to come to Abuja to be able to see cause lagosians just aint interested. By the way, am not a Hitv staff. I am just someone who says it as it is. The hitv people also get the stick whenever they deserve the stick. Cheers |
Enough of this story about Hitv merging with Daarsat. Daarsat should not try to reap where they didnt sow. Let them go and hussle like every other person and get their subscribers. They started on a very wrong foot when they went to get their own platform and bypassing the possibility of subscribers using generic decoders. They should have been looking at the subscriptions and not the money to be made from selling expensive equipment. If their is any one in danger here, its Daarsat. By now, we would have had so many of subscribers testing out their offerings if i could use my strong decoder and an "available transponder"(This has been kept a big secret by daarsat), to subscribe. But they would rather want me to cough out over 50k to get connected, Bullcrap. Someone said that DSTV has got the right for spanish league next season. Well, it may well be true since neither urfriend nor Rahym has refuted it. But they have equally lost the champions league for next season to Hitv. As things are, we the subscribers can never get it all at the same time. But I agree with you all that there is an urgent need for a dedicated movie channel. Urfriend and Rahyym plus Idiat, you guys already have working relationship with Sky network and Fox, is it rocket science to sign up sky movies1 or sky movies2 or even sky one? Is it an expedition to the moon to sign Fox life, fox crime or fox movies? Whats wrong with you people? It shouldnt take sooo long. Some of us know that the money is flowing and you are giving DSTV cause for great hope. |
aieromon:Yeah and Tomisan was so clueless in addressing the issue. I heard him mention that they were not supposed to show the match and am like what d *** is he talking about? The hitv website clearly listed the match as part of Hitv's quota. So disappointed at them right now |
const6:@const6 Why not try to sell just the smartcard. Quite a number of people will be interested. There is a new strong decoder now that has slots for two cards. so you can use two different providers without having to remove and insert all the time and its cheap. |
urfriend:Hello urfriend, I went to one of the links you posted and Nigeria is not yet listed in the map as areas where available. If you are launching animax a month away, Nigeria should have made that listing by now or dont you think? I really dont have the temperament for the coming soon saga ![]() |
luckiest:Hello everyone, Somehow, i have not been recieving email updates on this thread so i tend to miss discussions. At luckiest, that proposal is a no no for me. What would you be creating? A monstrous monopoly. Just dont go there. We need even more providers joining so everyone will be on their toes. Hitv is not about to tank like GTV. You underestimate the share size of the Nigerian market. You do the math: Some sources say that the subscriber base of Hitv is up to 350, 000(I personally believe that it is more). But even if we do the math at 250, 000 by 4k . We are looking at about 1 billion in subscriptions monthly during peak periods(premiership, lol). Ok, you can say that its not everyone that pays every month. Well like what percentage? I know that I and every other person i know pay every month for the duration of each premiership season and thats about eight months in every yr. Now , I dont know how much they would be paying for content(yearly) that will eat up this huge cash flow(monthly) even after over-heads and all. Maybe Senga can school us on that. For crying out loud, they owe us more content. Its not a question of them surviving at this time but getting more content with the loot. Also, remember that i just used a moderate figure. I definitely believe, and also heard from some sources that the subscriber base is much more than that 250,000 i used. |
maskuraid:lol @maskuraid . Always on point. First things First , abi? |
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