The Malawi Multichoice mess in numbers: Subscribers, Market share & Tax Forfeited

The first thought we had when we saw the trainwreck unfolding between the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA) and Multichoice was "This is DStv for pity's sake!". No wonder the country's communications authority was summoned by parliament to explain themselves.

If you are somehow seeing this for the first time, Multichoice announced that it is shutting down DStv Services in Malawi because of a court order that is forbidding Multichoice's DStv Malawi subsidiary from increasing its tv subscription packages

Of course, they were going to pull out if they felt that their interests were not going to be protected by the injunction that stopped the entertainment powerhouse from increasing its prices.

“Given the impact on Multichoice Malawi and an increasingly adverse regulatory environment, [Multichoice] is therefore left with no option but to terminate DStv services indefinitely,”

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