The communications industry regulator (CCK) postponed its self-imposed December 2012 national deadline for digital migration to after next year’s General Election. The high cost of acquiring set top boxes was cited as the prohibiting factor to the digital migration.

In as much as this is good news for consumers, as they are no longer under pressure to purchase set top boxes before January 2012, it is bad news for pay-tv providers.

Some pay-tv providers have announced a reduction in their set top boxes. Let’s compare prices of different set top boxes in the market.

The current pay-tv providers in the market include: DStv, Zuku, GOtv and StarTimes Media. Let’s compare their installation prices:

Prices posted for DStv, GOtv and StarTimes are December price offers.

A standard DStv decoder costs KES 4,000.

Monthly Subscription

The four pay-tv providers have channel bouquets suitable for different audience. Let’s compare these channel bouquets and their monthly subscription costs.