Subscribers of DSTV in Ghana will from Wednesday, October 1, 2025, enjoy an increased value offer following an agreement between government and MultiChoice Africa, operators of the platform.
This comes after months of tussel between the government and MultiChoice for a fair pricing regime in Ghana vis-a-vis what pertains in other African countries where DSTV operates the new agreement, subscribers would enjoy between 33 to 50 per cent more value depending on the DStv package or bouquet one uses for the next three months after which it would be reviewed.
Announcing the new offer at a news conference, in Accra, on Monday, Mr. Samuel Nartey George, the Minister of Communications Digital Technology and Innovation, said the new agreement was an “unprecedented increase in value offer only in Ghana, which will result in Ghanaian DStv subscribers getting more services for less.”
Additionally, subscribers on Access bouquet will automatically be upgraded to Family, with additional 19 channels, and 48 per cent in savings, while those on the Family bouquet will move up to Compact, enjoying 22 more channels and saving 50 per cent on subscription charges.
Subscribers on Compact will be upgraded to Compact Plus, and those on Compact Plus will enjoy access to the Premium bouquet.
The Minister further explained that subscribers already on the Premium bouquet will not be left out — they will automatically be entered into a draw for a chance to win a fully paid trip to Dubai.
“Compact, currently going at GH¢380, gets bumped up automatically to Compact Plus, which is priced at GH¢570. You get 12 more channels in addition, and the value savings, 33 per cent,” he said, adding that Compact Plus subscribers would be moved up to Premium bouquet with additional 18 channels while saving 34 per cent on subscription charges.
“For those who remain on their premium bouquet, which is priced at 865 Ghana Cedis, you will still get all the content on the flagship premium bouquet, but you also get an automatic entry into the competition for the chance to win a fully paid trip to watch selected English Premiership Games.
“But this is, as well as you know, subject to terms and conditions,” the Minister added.
Government and MultiChoice have been at loggerhead for months now over what the government considered “unfair” pricing regime vis-a-vis in other African countries.
In August this year, the Minister in charge of the sector threatened to revoke the broadcasting licence of MultiChoice Ghana if it failed to heed to calls for a review of its prices, but that was deferred after engagement between the two parties.
However, the Minister, through the National Communications Authority (NCA), set up a committee in September to look at the pricing of DSTV services in the country as well as cross-border piracy on DTSV decoders and services in Ghana.
Mr. George said aside from the new subscription offer, MultiChoice Africa had also agreed to a GH¢555 subsidy for the Zappa decoder and dish kit, adding that new customers could obtain the decoder and dish kit at 50 per cent of it’s current price.
The Minister cautioned Ghanaians against using DSTV decoders imported from Nigeria, warning that the government would deal ruthlessly with anyone found culpable.
He explained that such act was robbing the state of huge sums of revenue, urging Ghanaians to purchase and use decoders from MultiChoice Ghana.
“If you are a Ghanaian and you use, what I call, ghost boxes – the boxes from Nigeria, you do two things – you deprive the Ghanaian shareholders and owners of MultiChoice Ghana of revenue because you are paying to the Nigerian owners or MultiChoice Nigeria.
“But more importantly, you deprive your own homeland of tax revenue because in what you pay to the Nigerian for their Nigerian subscription is taxed to the Nigerian Government,” he said.
GNA
