No CHOICE, Multichoice DSTV

The Issue

Mutlichoice DSTV has the monopoly in South Africa with Satellite TV. Today DSTV is planning again adding a channel to DSTV, a Nigerian channel. (I thought I was a South African)

01/10/2018 Courtesy of MyBroadband: MyBroadband News

17/10/2018 No CHOICE, Multichoice DSTV has now given us a FREE subscription to JOOX VIP. Wow, another useless services I don't want. If No CHOICE, Multichoice DSTV have given us a choice, I would have preferred to have that R89.99 per month saving on my Premium subscription.

Showmax is also another "FREE" service that is has useless content. So with Showmax @ R99 and JOOX @ R89.99. I would have preferred to save R188.99 on my DSTV Premium. Ridicules.

We as South Africans had enough. 70% of DSTV Channels we do not use. Why am I paying for them. Especially the discrimination against Rugby Supporters. There is a lower package available for Soccer supporters, but as a Rugby supporter (South Africa's National Sport. The sport that brought us together is 1995), I have to pay premium rate to be able to watch my Rugby.

We want the following from DSTV:

  1. Give us a choice of channels. Out of the 89 channels I only use Movies and sport SS1 and SS2. But I'm paying for all the soccer channels. The rest is costing me money for nothing.
  2. Stop advertising while sport is being broadcasting live. I'm already paying a subscription. I do not want to see advertising while watching the Springboks against the All Blacks. In fact, we might just start boycotting the advertisers that makes our screen smaller.
  3. So many News channels. For what?
  4. So many other channels, Lesotho TV, Cape TV, MTV etc...Why am I paying for them If i do not watch it....Ever!
  5. We want the option of selecting an option of (No advertising) We are already paying a subscription. Some of us do not want to see an advert every time, before every show.
  6. Give us the option of choosing what DSTV is allowed to download on the Explora. So many nonsense is being downloaded and wasting our data. And the genre of show that I watch is never downloaded.

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The Issue

Mutlichoice DSTV has the monopoly in South Africa with Satellite TV. Today DSTV is planning again adding a channel to DSTV, a Nigerian channel. (I thought I was a South African)

01/10/2018 Courtesy of MyBroadband: MyBroadband News

17/10/2018 No CHOICE, Multichoice DSTV has now given us a FREE subscription to JOOX VIP. Wow, another useless services I don't want. If No CHOICE, Multichoice DSTV have given us a choice, I would have preferred to have that R89.99 per month saving on my Premium subscription.

Showmax is also another "FREE" service that is has useless content. So with Showmax @ R99 and JOOX @ R89.99. I would have preferred to save R188.99 on my DSTV Premium. Ridicules.

We as South Africans had enough. 70% of DSTV Channels we do not use. Why am I paying for them. Especially the discrimination against Rugby Supporters. There is a lower package available for Soccer supporters, but as a Rugby supporter (South Africa's National Sport. The sport that brought us together is 1995), I have to pay premium rate to be able to watch my Rugby.

We want the following from DSTV:

  1. Give us a choice of channels. Out of the 89 channels I only use Movies and sport SS1 and SS2. But I'm paying for all the soccer channels. The rest is costing me money for nothing.
  2. Stop advertising while sport is being broadcasting live. I'm already paying a subscription. I do not want to see advertising while watching the Springboks against the All Blacks. In fact, we might just start boycotting the advertisers that makes our screen smaller.
  3. So many News channels. For what?
  4. So many other channels, Lesotho TV, Cape TV, MTV etc...Why am I paying for them If i do not watch it....Ever!
  5. We want the option of selecting an option of (No advertising) We are already paying a subscription. Some of us do not want to see an advert every time, before every show.
  6. Give us the option of choosing what DSTV is allowed to download on the Explora. So many nonsense is being downloaded and wasting our data. And the genre of show that I watch is never downloaded.

The Decision Makers

No CHOICE, Multichoice DSTV
No CHOICE, Multichoice DSTV
Multichoice DSTV

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Petition created on 2 October 2018