TopTV recently announced that they will increase their pay-TV prices on all their bouquets from 1 July 2011.

Top TV explained that the price increase is an “inflationary adjustment which any business faces when dealing with rising operational costs.”

The cost of content and other rising prices contributed to a rise in operational costs, Top TV said.

This announcement follows MultiChoice’s price increase on some of their DStv bouquets in April 2011.

The rates for DStv Lite (R99), PVR access (R65.00), DStv Mobile (R36.00), PVR add on, and DStv Lite remained unchanged, while the pricing for DStv Premium, DStv Compact and DStv Select were increased.

The following table gives a timeline of DStv’s price changes for its most popular pay-TV bouquets over the last five years.

While it is challenging to compare DStv and TopTV’s bouquets because of the wide range of channels and user preferences, their products do have some similarities, especially for packages priced between R99 and R300 per month.

The following table provides a basic comparison between DStv and TopTV’s most popular packages in the sub-R300 price bracket.

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