The Federal Competitors and Client Safety Fee (FCCPC) has summoned MultiChoice Nigeria over its transfer to hike subscription charges for DStv and GoTV.
Clients underneath the pay-TV firm just lately woke as much as a notification of a hike within the subscription charges. The agency in a discover despatched to them elevated the DStv premium bouquet to N44,500 from the N37,000 value.
It additionally stated subscribers on the Compact+ would begin paying N30,000 as towards the present price of N25,000 amongst others. In accordance with MultiChoice, the brand new charges take impact from March 1, 2025.
However within the wake of the proposed hike, FCCPC has summoned MultiChoice Nigeria’s chief govt officer to a listening to on the company’s headquarters on Thursday.
“The Federal Competitors and Client Safety Fee (FCCPC) has summoned MultiChoice Nigeria to elucidate its proposed subscription value enhance, set to take impact on March 1, 2025,” FCCPC’s Director of Company Affairs Ondaje Ijagwu stated in a press release on Tuesday night.
“Exercising its mandate underneath Sections 32 and 33 of the FCCPA, the FCCPC directed the Chief Govt Officer of MultiChoice Nigeria to attend an investigative listening to on the Fee’s headquarters on Thursday, February 27, 2025.
“This motion follows MultiChoice’s formal notification of the value adjustment, which raises issues about recurrent unilateral value hikes, potential market dominance abuse, and perceived anti-competitive practices within the pay-TV business.”
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‘Deeply Involved’
Ijagwu stated the FCCPC is “deeply involved” over the pay-TV firm’s proposal amid accusations that “MultiChoice applies completely different pricing methods in different markets”.
Nevertheless it promised to “impose regulatory penalties, sanctions, or different corrective measures” on MultiChoice ought to it “fail to offer passable explanations or be present in violation of honest market rules”.
FCCPC stated that is to “shield Nigerian shoppers” and that’s it already “partaking the sector regulator and different related companies to make sure honest competitors and shopper safety inside Nigeria’s broadcasting and digital subscription panorama”.
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