Nigerians Blast DSTV Over Tariff Hike

Nigerians on Friday took to the micro-blogging site, Twitter to berate the management of DSTV, owned by Multichoice, over the increment of the cable television’s subscription tariffs.

The attack on DSTV is coming after Naija News had reported earlier that the House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee Investigating the Non-Implementation of ‘Pay As You Go’ Tariff by Satellite Broadcast Service Providers asked DSTV on Wednesday to appear before it next Tuesday.

Earlier, the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC) was directed by the House of Reps to ask DSTV to reverse its subscription rates introduced on June 1, 2020. DSTV  is being probed for allegedly cheating its Nigerian subscribers by restricting them to prepaid plans.

On seeing the message from DSTV about the tariff hike, Nigerians took to the micro-blogging site, Twitter to berate the management of DSTV, owned by Multichoice.

Naija News captured some of the reactions below…

DStv has successfully bribed lawmakers in this country for this impunity to continue. Some people in government raised the issue of the costly price for DSTV bouquet, now no one is talking price is up again. Please we need #dstvpayperview , retweet if you are concerned #bbnaija pic.twitter.com/7rJcJKiaW1

— odubayo Nathaniel (@natoodus) August 21, 2020

The name of the app is mobdro
DSTV enough is enough
200mb per hour to stream on any network the app will even tell you the amount of data it will cist you to stream a match,highlights and all you can also reduce the quality.
DSTV need to loose customers abeg?? pic.twitter.com/gzZyVvg6BA

— ?tunnel_vision (@__fedrick) August 21, 2020

DSTV just increased Compact Plus to 12,400?? LMAOooooooo @DStvNg una go come thief the money Comot my account by unaself. Craze

— chips™ (@MistaChips) August 21, 2020

dstv needs competition, then all this rubbish would stop

— Tomi (@TomyyO_) August 21, 2020

What was the point of the summon ?

If only you know that most of Senators and House of representatives members don't pay for their DSTV subscription. DSTV gives them exclusive right to premium packages all year round.

Inside Life ? pic.twitter.com/B6jXftlE0M

— ODD$CHASER (@oddschaser) August 21, 2020

DSTV will increase Fee, the next thing is to Pay Influencers for hashtag and after few hours we forget about the increment then we move on. pic.twitter.com/bJPtMR4CTQ

— Adedeji A Ayodeji (@Ishoot_pixels) August 21, 2020

Thiza, this blew up? and the best part about is that everyone presented their views in a constructive manner and made valid points!! Because I wanted to present a strong argument, I did a little digging about DSTV Showcase Announcement & this is what I got from it… A THREAD https://t.co/UL98exbCpM

— Pamela Mtanga (@pamela_mtanga) August 21, 2020

DSTV no get content and dem Dey increase money like thief Lmaooo

— valking ♔ (@_VALKlNG) August 21, 2020

Not every DSTV dish you see in people's houses are working, some are there just to block thunder! ??#LayCruiser

— Vócláìn LD™️✴️ (@iam_Voclain) August 21, 2020

DSTV…una fit come collect my Flash put new movies for your channels abeg??

— Y҉O҉U҉N҉G҉ ✰ (@Dr_youngy) August 21, 2020

This DStv subscription increment is paining my head.

Compact package from 6,900 to 7,900
Compact plus package from 10,925 to 12,000.

Haba!!! Ontop what content nau?. FRAUDS. Robbery in broad daylight.

— BLUEBERRY? (@NenyeChelsea) August 21, 2020