DStv Increasing Subscription Prices In SA Again

MultiChoice South Africa is reportedly at it again with their yearly price hike being announced on April Fool’s Day but apparently this is no joke.

Yearly price hikes have become mandatory for South African subscribers and the 2019 hikes have been announced:

Packages	2018 Price	2019 Price
DStv Premium	R	R
DStv Compact Plus	R509	R519
DStv Compact	R385	R399
DStv Family	R249	R265
DStv Access	R99	R105
DStv EasyView	R29	R29
DStv Select	R249	R265
M-Net Analogue	R409	R419

The hikes are not too unreasonable and compared to previous price structures it doesn’t look like customers will be forced to part with much more than they have already been paying.

Premium subscribers won’t even see their subscription rise and that makes sense as last year, DStv lost premium subscribers to the lower packages and competing services such as Netflix. Another increase for this package would have probably ruffled feathers and DStv thought against it for now.

If Multichoice’s Zimbabwe’s past behaviour is anything to go by, they will not follow suit as the past two occassions that subscriptions costs have risen in South Africa, they have stayed the same locally.