MultiChoice widens payment options
May 18, 2006
Multichoice has signed an agreement with Stanbic Bank to enable the pay-television subscribers pay bills throughout the bank’s braches.
By Peter Kaujju
Multichoice has signed an agreement with Stanbic Bank to enable the pay-television subscribers pay bills throughout the bank’s braches.
The agreement was sealed in Kampala this week.
Charles Hamya, the MultiChoice general manager, said the initiative would save subscribers’ the time and money previously used to pay at their Kampala offices.
“Most customers have been paying their bills through relatives living in Kampala. This new arrangement will solve the problem,†Hamya said.
Kitili Mbathi, the Stanbic managing director, said the automated systems and linkage of the bank branches would make the service possible to all customers countrywide.
“This will ease service payments by upcountry subscribers. This is possible with our branch network,†Mbathi said.
Meanwhile, MultiChoice is closing down its M-Net analogue service as a diminishing analogue subscriber base has led to increased costs of sustaining the service, reports Emmy Olaki.
Charles Hamya, the general manager, said recently that the analogue service that was launched in 1995 suffered decreasing numbers when DStv was launched.
“We can no longer sustain the costs of analogue. So we have made a cautious decision to close it. The technology is outdated and customers want DStv.
“Manufacturers can no longer also support the production of analogue equipment as the industry has gone digital,†Hamya said. He said analogue customers could convert to DStv.
. This will be over a period of two months.
“Under the new package, subscribers will on top of the three channels they have been receiving get two additional ones for the same subscription price as the analogue. We are also discounting for the equipment where they will pay $199 instead of $355,†Hamya said.
“By migrating customers to DSTV, it gives us flexibility on what products to release to the market, which was a very tedious process with analogue,†he explained.
The company has also entered partnerships with credit companies to enable customers acquire the facility and pay over a period of three months.
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Multichoice has signed an agreement with Stanbic Bank to enable the pay-television subscribers pay bills throughout the bank’s braches.
The agreement was sealed in Kampala this week.
Charles Hamya, the MultiChoice general manager, said the initiative would save subscribers’ the time and money previously used to pay at their Kampala offices.
“Most customers have been paying their bills through relatives living in Kampala. This new arrangement will solve the problem,†Hamya said.
Kitili Mbathi, the Stanbic managing director, said the automated systems and linkage of the bank branches would make the service possible to all customers countrywide.
“This will ease service payments by upcountry subscribers. This is possible with our branch network,†Mbathi said.
Meanwhile, MultiChoice is closing down its M-Net analogue service as a diminishing analogue subscriber base has led to increased costs of sustaining the service, reports Emmy Olaki.
Charles Hamya, the general manager, said recently that the analogue service that was launched in 1995 suffered decreasing numbers when DStv was launched.
“We can no longer sustain the costs of analogue. So we have made a cautious decision to close it. The technology is outdated and customers want DStv.
“Manufacturers can no longer also support the production of analogue equipment as the industry has gone digital,†Hamya said. He said analogue customers could convert to DStv.
. This will be over a period of two months.
“Under the new package, subscribers will on top of the three channels they have been receiving get two additional ones for the same subscription price as the analogue. We are also discounting for the equipment where they will pay $199 instead of $355,†Hamya said.
“By migrating customers to DSTV, it gives us flexibility on what products to release to the market, which was a very tedious process with analogue,†he explained.
The company has also entered partnerships with credit companies to enable customers acquire the facility and pay over a period of three months.
Ends.