DStv Premium, the top-end bouquet, will rise in price from R699 to R759/month on April 1, an increase of 8.6%.
Premium subscribers with a personal video recorder (PVR) decoder must also pay an R85 access fee (up from R80 now), taking the total cost to R844/month. The fee gives subscribers access to an additional viewing environment in their homes as well as access to services such as DStv Catch Up, BoxOffice and DStv Now.
DStv Compact customers will see their subscription fees climb by 8.2%, while those on DStv Extra and DStv Family will have to fork out 8% and 10% more respectively from next month (see the table below for the full price adjustments).
Those on MultiChoice’s most basic bouquet, DStv EasyView, will see their subscriptions reduced from R39 to R29/month, a decline of more than 25%. The price of DStv Access, meanwhile, will remain unchanged at R99/month.
