Indigenous PayTV company, TStv was launched on Sunday to coincide with the celebration of 57 years of Nigeria’s independent.
The launch, attended by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, was broadcast live on AIT.
With the promise of cheap subscription, data allocation as value-added service and pay as you watch pause service, many see the launch as liberation from South Africa’s DStv which has enjoyed near monopoly in the country for two decades.
The government has also thrown in a three-year tax holiday to the delight of Nigerians who could not wait to stick the knife at DStv and its sister GOtv both owned by MultiChoice.
If u no get lower subscription hide ur decoder u can call us #TSTV omo iya ?? aiin gotv $ dstv ti gba penalty lo throwing @iam_smalldoctor https://t.co/3J3DgkwOea
— MASPARAY mspidcom (@masparay) October 1, 2017
#DSTV board trying to figure out how to compete with #TSTV pic.twitter.com/vMAJI2pNZg
— MANS NOT HOT (@classic_charles) October 1, 2017
D way I bail out on #DSTV when I see #TSTV subscription on #quickteller . I can not be paying almost 10K & still be watching #UCL online. pic.twitter.com/IoNUTDmH5p
— Seun Nuės (@daemperor007) October 1, 2017
#DSTV looking at #TSTV now pic.twitter.com/ObiQu8qISm
— Ajewole Tobi (@born_VICTOR) October 1, 2017
Nigerians happy for two reasons today
1 marking their independence from the British
2 marking their independence from DSTV welcome #TSTV pic.twitter.com/kkRzRXlDLJ— MOGBOMOYA(AMOSHAN) (@iam_jefferyZee) October 1, 2017
Q: Now that you have #TSTV, what are you going to do with your GOTV and DSTV dish?
Ans: I’ll use it to pick beans. pic.twitter.com/zzubcJBP2n
— Demola (@uncleDemola) October 1, 2017
So most nigerians watched the launch of the end of dstv on dstv #TSTV pic.twitter.com/dh7foymi05
— Chelsea ? (@oki_peter_) October 1, 2017
Now that #TSTV has officially been launched, we can now use our DSTV dish to cover our generators pic.twitter.com/IfT1OzIOOx
— Demola (@uncleDemola) October 1, 2017
DSTV watching the unveiling of #TSTV like……. pic.twitter.com/9npvExV9uG
— Martins CFC (@MARTINS165) October 1, 2017
TSTV launch LIVE on AIT……
Dstv and gotv will like to remove AIT from their channel list ? ? #Tstv all the way pic.twitter.com/iMUna8ZM7G
— 7sevenshop.com (@7sevenshop_) October 1, 2017
After #TSTV has been launched.
GOTV: “We are giving out 50 GOtv decoders at the #GOtvBoxingNight12 #MAXtober”
NIGERIANS: pic.twitter.com/VWunX6ujTH
— A Hoe Story (@AHoeStory) October 1, 2017
