by Thinus Ferreira  

Large anger is constructing underneath DStv subscribers in Uganda after MultiChoice Uganda’s resolution to as soon as once more hike costs within the nation in lower than six months, with clients saying they’re executed and eventually cancelling their DStv subscriptions.

MultiChoice Africa’s newest value hike for DStv Uganda subscribers comes lower than six months after the final one in April 2024, and can come into impact from October.

DStv Uganda subscribers have slammed MultiChoice over what it calls “an obscene cash seize that is a disgusting slap within the face of loyal clients who already battle to afford this overpriced, lacklustre service”.

Ugandan shoppers, fighting inflation and a weak economic system, say they’ll now not afford luxurious bills like DStv and are lastly chopping the wire after MultiChoice is pushing them past what they’ll afford.

MultiChoice Uganda is climbing DStv Premium from Shs290 000 to Shs300 000, whereas DStv Compact Plus will leap from Shs170 000 to Shs175 000. GOtv Supa is hiked from Shs69 000 to Shs71 000.

Rinaldi Jamugisa, MultiChoice Uganda communications supervisor, says MultiChoice Uganda is climbing costs once more inside six months as a result of “rising content material manufacturing prices”.

“Producing and buying high-quality content material comes at a big price. Heavy funding is made in producing unique content material, delivering unique reveals, broadcasting reside sports activities or occasions and worldwide programming, which contributes to our total prices, amongst different drivers of value changes like financial situations that we could not have management over.”