WED, AUGUST 09 2023-theGBJournal |MultiChoice Africa and Holdings B.V (MAH) today announced the withdrawal of services from Malawi with immediate effect.
This follows an injunction issued by the High Court in Lilongwe in a matter between MultiChoice Malawi (MCM) and the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA) prohibiting an adjustment to the DStv tariffs.
MCM argument in the case is that it does not offer the DStv service to the public and therefore cannot set or adjust tariffs for this service, a point it says it has repeatedly made.
”As a result, the order handed down to MCM is incapable of being implemented by them but carries with it grave consequences for the directors and management of MultiChoice Malawi, including imprisonment.
MAH, given the impact on its supplier (MCM) and an increasingly adverse regulatory environment is therefore left with no option but to terminate the DStv service indefinitely,” MultiChoice Malawi said in a statement.
The biggest satellite television service in sub-Saharan Africa consequently has urged its customers to halt payment for the DStv service in Malawi.
It said customers who have already paid their new subscription for the DStv service will have those services honored until the current 30 day viewing cycle ends on or before 10 September 2023.
”From Wednesday, 9 August 2023, no new subscriptions or reconnections will be accepted,” it said.
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