MultiChoice cuts subscription fees
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Rebecca Hawkes
| 04 September 2017

MultiChoice has slashed its subscription fees across all its pay-TV platforms in Zambia and announced it will increase local content as part of its ‘real deal’ campaign in the country.

The reduction, of up to 16%, comes in the wake of increasing digital TV competition for MultiChoice from rivals Kwese TV, Zuku, Muvi and StarTimes.

MultiChoice acting managing director Ngoza Matakala told IT Web that competition in the sector was welcome, to provide greater consumer choice.

Zambia’s Government recently announced it would complete the switchover to digital television broadcasting in urban areas connected by rail from 1 October.

Regulator, the Zambia Information and Communication Technology Authority (ZICTA), has been mandated to take every measure to ensure that there was adherence to the analogue switch-off date.

TopStar – a joint venture created by state broadcaster, the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation, and China’s StarTimes Group – has reportedly invested around US$273 million installing transmission lines and constructing provincial broadcasting stations in Zambia for the remaining phases of the country’s migration to digital broadcasting.