{"id":53150,"date":"2023-11-24T19:40:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T19:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/multichoice-contradicts-macra-on-resumption-of-dstv"},"modified":"2023-11-24T19:58:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T19:58:59","slug":"multichoice-contradicts-macra-on-resumption-of-dstv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/multichoice-contradicts-macra-on-resumption-of-dstv","title":{"rendered":"MultiChoice contradicts Macra on resumption of DStv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>MultiChoice Africa Holdings says the resumption of DStv services depends on the outcome of a judicial dispute between MultiChoice Malawi and Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra).<\/p>\n<p>The statement contradicts claims which Macra made last week that MultiChoice would resume its services by Friday last week. In a statement today, Multichoice Africa Holdings has not committed to resume its services in Malawi for now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe potential return of DStv in Malawi is now dependent on the outcome of the judicial between MultiChoice Malawi and Macra. The matter has been heard in court and is pending judgement,\u201d reads part of the statement released today.<\/p>\n<p>MultiChoice Africa Holdings terminated DStv services in Malawi last month after a pricing row with Macra. The dispute started after MultiChoice raised DStv tariffs in July this year. The regulator argues that MultiChoice should not raise DStv tariffs without consulting Macra. MultiChoice to resume DStv services in Malawi this week<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. MultiChoice Africa Holdings says the resumption of DStv services depends on the outcome of a judicial dispute between MultiChoice Malawi and Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra). The statement contradicts claims which Macra made last week that MultiChoice would resume its services by Friday last week. In a statement today, Multichoice Africa Holdings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":53148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[233,371,5156,604,234,897],"class_list":["post-53150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-dstv","tag-macra","tag-malawi","tag-multichoice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MultiChoice contradicts Macra on resumption of DStv - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"MultiChoice Africa Holdings says the resumption of DStv services depends on the outcome of a judicial dispute between Mu ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/multichoice-contradicts-macra-on-resumption-of-dstv\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MultiChoice contradicts Macra on resumption of DStv\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"MultiChoice Africa Holdings says the resumption of DStv services depends on the outcome of a judicial dispute between Mu ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/multichoice-contradicts-macra-on-resumption-of-dstv\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-11-24T19:40:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-11-24T19:58:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/11\/sm_1700843160.791163.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"960\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"538\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/multichoice-contradicts-macra-on-resumption-of-dstv#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/multichoice-contradicts-macra-on-resumption-of-dstv\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"MultiChoice contradicts Macra on resumption of DStv\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-11-24T19:40:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-11-24T19:58:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/multichoice-contradicts-macra-on-resumption-of-dstv\"},\"wordCount\":171,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/multichoice-contradicts-macra-on-resumption-of-dstv#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/11\/sm_1700843160.791163.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Dstv\",\"macra\",\"Malawi\",\"MultiChoice\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/multichoice-contradicts-macra-on-resumption-of-dstv#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/multichoice-contradicts-macra-on-resumption-of-dstv\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/multichoice-contradicts-macra-on-resumption-of-dstv\",\"name\":\"MultiChoice contradicts Macra on resumption of DStv - 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