Angola is the first African country where MultiChoice is announcing a DStv subscription price hike for 2018 with DStv subscribers in the West African country who will be paying more for their monthly DStv subscriptions from sometime in the first quarter of 2018.
DStv Angola didn't yet announce the specific monthly price increases for the various DStv packages but is the first country to signal just before Christmas that DStv fees will be increasing in the new year.
MultiChoice Africa says the price hike in "inevitable" with Eduardo Continentino, MultiChoice Angola CEO saying the DStv subscription fee increase is mainly due to "exchange losses and inflation" due to the weakened kwanza currency.
Angola's Valor Economico is reporting that DStv Angola is doing better after 2016 that Eduardo Continentino is describing as "a very bad year". More than 60% of DStv Angola's subscribers are based in the country's capital, Luanda, considered one of the most expensive cities in the world to live in.
In 2017 MultiChoice Africa decreased DStv subscription fees in several African countries since August including Uganda, Kenya, Zambia and Ghana saying "we recognise that our customers are living in tough economic times", although MultiChoice South Africa increased the DStv monthly subscription fees for South Africans in 2017 who saw no similar decrease.
