Nigerian Gateway: TSTV Nigeria - Features and Packages

In Nigeria today, DSTV, GoTv and Startimes has been the domineering pay TV stations not giving room for others to strive. Over the years, DSTV has hijacked the minds of the people and with their high price continually extort the populace before Startimes came to our rescue.

Just as in the days of Telecommunication, only globacom, our very own came to our rescue if not MTN and co were prepared to bury us alive. You can find out more about the rescue of GLOBacomm here.

TSTV Nigeria, the latest pay TV series in Nigeria, owned by Bright Ehefu Ikechukwu was lunched in Nigeria on October 1, 2017 with a lots of values to alleviate us from the bondage of other TV pay stations in Nigeria.

Some of the perks include the ability to pause your subscription for up to 7 days in a month, PVR feature with up to 500GB built-in storage, Video on Demand, Video Calls, and free 20GB data. However the thing that is exciting consumers the most about TStv is the affordable price, which has been capped to 3000 Naira per month by the company.

Requirements for the installation of the TSTV

Satellite Dish Required

TStv is a satellite Direct to Home (DTH) Pay TV service just like DSTV. This means you will need to install a satellite dish for your system. According to information on the company’s website, your dish should be pointing to the ABS 3A satellite located at 3 degrees west.

You also require a set top box (decoder). The good news is that the dish and the decoder will cost just 5,000 Naira, making it affordable for a lot more Nigerians.

The TStv Set Top Box

The set top box (decoder) by TStv is the most versatile so far in the industry. This decoder uses the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HBB TV) tech to deliver high quality entertainment to your home. HBB TV combines satellite and internet services like IPTV and broadband to deliver content and other value added services to your home.

The TStv set top box will support internet connectivity and will even act as a Wi-Fi hotspot for connecting your devices to the internet. The company is also bundling 20GB of free data in the 3000 Naira monthly. With the data you can do video calls, Video on Demand, and other value added broadband services.

The decoder also comes with a PVR feature that enables you pause and rewind live TV. With its 500GB built-in storage you can store a whole lot of content for future viewing. The decoder also allows you pause your TStv subscription for 7 days within a 30-day period. This means you can pause your subscription if you are not going to be around for a couple of days and resume when you return.

TStv Subscription & Package

For now it seems TStv will offer one subscription plan. The plan costs 3,000 Naira for a month subscription. However, the unique thing about the service is that it offers flexible pay as you go option. For example, you can pay 200 Naira, 500 Naira, 750, Naira, 1000 Naira, 1500 Naira, and 3000 Naira depending on the length of time you want to subscribe.

TStv Subscription Cost and Validity Period

    3000 Naira – 30 days
    1500 Naira – 14 days
    1000 Naira – 10 days
    750 Naira – 7 days
    500 Naira – 3 days
    200 Naira – 1 day (24 hours)

Paying the full 3000 Naira will give you 30 days access plus 20GB of free data. You also get one month free subscription.

TStv Channels

TStv boasts of over 70 channels ranging from Sports, News, Movies, Music, Kids, Documentaries, and much more.

Some popular TStv channels include:

    FOX
    AIT
    CNN
    BBC News
    Channels
    Aljazeera
    Bloomberg
    beIN Sports (Multuple Channels)
    FOX Sports (Multiple Channels)
    EWTN
    MTV Base
    National Geographic
    Nat Geo Wild
    FashionOne
    Nickelodeon
    TeleNovela Channel
    Nina TV
    M Africa Yoruba
    M Africa Hausa
    Riwendu TV
    M Africa Movies
    TVC News
    Sunna TV
    Emmanuel TV
    Euro Sport
    HITS TV
    Trace Africa
    etc

Availability

TStv was launched on Sunday, October 1. However, the set to boxes and dish are not yet available as at the the time of updating this article (October 2).

Our sources say the company will start delivering the set top boxes and dishes to their dealers nationwide by Tuesday, October 3. You should be able to buy the items from some dealers by Thursday, October 5. However, most dealers should have it in stock by next week.

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