EXPOSED: HOW NAIROBIANS ARE CONNECTING FOR CHEAP WITH DSTV ‘SAMBAZA’

[Meria_Mata]

Ingia dstv mwitu at your own risk.
mimi niko sawa fta.

[gashwin]

@Meria Mata

Ingia dstv mwitu at your own risk.
mimi niko sawa fta.

i see what you are doing there…

[WuTang]

@vuja de

what could be the reason? Taxation? Govt policy? Remember, the govt is a major shareholder in Multichoice Kenya

No justification for their prices.

[imei2012]

Wale talkers wanatoka sunton hope mnakumbuka dan alikufa baada ya kuanguka kutoka kwa ghorofa akihook up client kwa sambaza …dude would charge as little as 300 na mkikutana kwa baro unamdunga chwani ama soo ya keg hio mwezi umelipa down payment…tulienda naye same highschool sadnes of life

[1776]

@gashwin

if i was a decision maker for multichoice i would halve the price of the premium bouquet to about 5 k. this would make sufferers like me who are waiting for time to go watch chelsea to consider the cost of taxi and drinks i don’t need and upgrade, bringing in 10,000 (theoretical figure!) new customers served at no extra cost except account management which is automated anyway in place of 500 who are drinking their martels in golf clubs. 100005000=50m in the bank compared to 5001000=500000 currently. the idea is to be just below the psychological boundary where the customer says this thing is expensive…and hii mambo ya kupandisha tariffs every time obama sneezes is bad for biz image…

truth be told, this is why you’re not a decision-maker.
content is expensive. satellite links are expensive. staff are expensive. cost of doing business in Kenya is expensive.
so guess what they’ll do about it?
put it this way, do you go to laico regency for lunch/dinner 2-3 times a week? no
but you go to the kibanda on a daily basis (kibanda being your local lunch spot not necessarily an actual kibanda)
this is because you can afford it. you don’t make as much noise to laico, do you?
point is, i understand where they’re coming from. it’s pricey yes. but it’s coz it has to be. unless they remove some of the content that you so love.
remember when safcom was 30bob a minute? because it had to be. now it’s 4 bob. when the environment changes, you benefit.

[gashwin]

@1776

content is expensive. satellite links are expensive. staff are expensive. cost of doing business in Kenya is expensive.

so, when Laico has only five customers that can afford their (luxury) services do they continue raising their tariffs every time their costs of production rise, so that they are left with three customers that can afford? Do you then spread your overheads on the remaining three?

[Liana]

these guys operate like whole of Africa even if they let like 1country enjoy their services for free they can’t feel a bitch in their financial yearly report

[magreb]

@1776

truth be told, this is why you’re not a decision-maker.
content is expensive. satellite links are expensive. staff are expensive. cost of doing business in Kenya is expensive.
so guess what they’ll do about it?
put it this way, do you go to laico regency for lunch/dinner 2-3 times a week? no
but you go to the kibanda on a daily basis (kibanda being your local lunch spot not necessarily an actual kibanda)
this is because you can afford it. you don’t make as much noise to laico, do you?
point is, i understand where they’re coming from. it’s pricey yes. but it’s coz it has to be. unless they remove some of the content that you so love.
remember when safcom was 30bob a minute? because it had to be. now it’s 4 bob. when the environment changes, you benefit.

My friend, you don’t seem to understand how businesses operate. Try to educate yourself on the whole concept of marginal revenue and fixed and marginal costs. So what happens when more and more customers opt out due to higher charges? Do they recover their overheads by continually overcharging the remaining customers?

[Wafs]

Let them be. Hata kimeumana huko. Recently they dropped their decoder prices by 50% to get more customers. It all has to do with the price hike and EPL channel changes which rendered Compact plus useless (most subsribed).

[The_gunner]

Huku paipu is the norm of the day.
all flats hav around 10 premium channels hakuna haja ya decorder

[holycow]

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[SIZE=5]Four suspects arrested in Eldoret for operating cable TV services illegally[/SIZE]

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Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) officers analyse equipment at an illegal cable TV operator in Eldoret. Four suspects were arrested on Monday and arraigned in court

The Authority yesterday raided an illegal cable television operator in Eldoret leading to the arrest of four suspects.

Officers from CA’s Western Regional Office accompanied by security officers raided Matuchhaya Cable Limited, located in Khetia Garments Building along Moi Street, Eldoret. .

The suspects were arraigned before an Eldoret court today and charged with operating a television cable station without a licence contrary to Section 24 (b) of the Kenya Information and Communications Act,1998.

Over 60-satellite decoders and receivers, a fibre optic transmitter, about13 Encoders and 52 modulators were recovered in the operation. The business is estimated to serve over 250 clients.

The suspects pleaded not guilty to the offence and were released on a bond of Ksh1 Million. The case will be mentioned on February 1 and heard on March16 this year.[/SIZE]