Telecom Satellite Television, has announced that it would commence commercial roll-out of its decoders to Nigerians by November 1, 2017.
TStv Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Bright Echefu, made the disclosure at the company’s head office in Abuja.
He said starting Monday, 5,000 decoders would be given to customers for free in Abuja and some selected states in the Country. Echefu added that the TSTSV decoders would also be installed for free to enable them test the strong signal and services of the new pay TV.
He explained that the delay in the commercial deployment of decoders to customers was to prevent any fraudulent activity by unscrupulous elements who would want to sabotage the company effort.
He explained that the delay in the commercial deployment of decoders to customers was to prevent any fraudulent activity by unscrupulous elements who would want to sabotage the company effort.
He added “We have not commenced commercial sales of our decoders because we are aware of the fact that we are running a business which could easily be frustrated by competition"
“We had applications from over 3,000 individuals who want to be our dealers, so far we have cleared about 750 of the dealers.
”We are currently conducting thorough background checks as we do not want a situation where people, individuals pretending to be dealers buy up our decoders and go dump them somewhere.”
He(Echefu) that within two weeks, the verification and full accreditation of dealers would be completed and the commercial sale of the decoders would begin in full.
TStv introduces the Pay-as-You-Consume model, “With TStv, you don’t need to pay subscription monthly or periodically. You pay as you consume", an option other Pay TV providers had insisted was not going to happen , because the contents they relay was bought as a whole and not in bits.
“It is the first Nigerian TV to launch a pay-as-you-consume, so you can pause your subscription whenever you are travelling. The DTH pay TV, offers 200 rich blend of local and international channels and packages for entertainment, including news, sports, kids, health and so on.
TStv will also show live sports like Premier League, UEFA Champions League, Europa League and much more via some of it sport channels such as Sport 1-10, Fox Sport HD, and Ts Sports.
Running on 4.5G network, every subscriber will get 20G of data for N3,000 monthly. The data can also be used for video calls conferences with camera and WiFi. Echefu had during the signing of the multi-transponder agreement with their ABS partner, said their services would offer viewers the experience of HD and SD video, internet services, broadband, TV and radio, at a very affordable rates.
“What makes the project interesting is the fact that it would start with 100 channels of local, regional and international contents in Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, Ghanaian, Sierra Leonean, Liberian languages, and other African lanuguage”, he said.
Echefu noted that TStv has the right content and premium product to satisfy the growing demands and needs of Nigerians.
“It would assist ABS take Nollywood and Sport to great heights. Their sport channels is the bomb! EPL, La liga, and Champion League are amazing!
“The dish and the decoder would be sold for just #5000 and subscription prices ranges from N200, N500, N1,000, N1,500 and N3,000, respectively”.
Also speaking, Madu Ugo, Head of Corporate Communications, welcomed Nigerians to “a new world”.
He assured citizens that TStv will “ensure that their yearnings about pay TV are met”.
“We are here to provide the best products and services. We urge every one to get their decoders and start enjoying sports, news, movies, documentaries, soap operas and others”.
They at TStv Africa aims to cover all 36 states in Nigeria, but launches first in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Owerri and Kano.
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