Adonis Aboud
By Mustapha Kamara
Chief Executive Officer of Transnational Sierra Leone says Ebola has severely impacted the activities of the satellite service provider, DSTV.
Speaking at a press conference in Freetown Dr. Adonis Aboud said the impact had seriously affected the company’s operations and had led to loss of valuable customers.
He said that before the outbreak the company had over 8,000 customers “but we have lost most of them while others have been inactive since the outbreak in March this year.”
He said there was an increase in subscriber fee, which he said was not determined by Transnational Sierra Leone but by Multi Choice service providers. However, he stated that they had been able to regulate the price of services provided by DSTV so that many more Sierra Leoneans would be able to watch satellite television channels.
Responding to customer complaint about their present signal strength, the DSTV CEO explained that the poor signal customers were experiencing was sometimes due to the heavy and plenty of rainfall in the country, noting that the problem was a similar one in other countries.
Aboud went on that they were providing one of the cheapest DSTV services in Africa, “except for service providers in Nigeria”, because of that country’s population, adding that Sierra Leone and Nigeria had almost the same price for DSTV services provided.
He said his company was planning to provide even cheaper services for nine dollars “but we are yet to be granted licenses to start operations by the National Telecommunications Commission.”
© Politico 25/11/14
