ANN CROTTY: A waste of time and money
I’ve left MultiChoice; life’s too short for so much gruel and repetition
Finally, despite getting free access from my kind neighbour, I decided that MultiChoice has become too expensive. After a decade-long, half-hearted commitment I have made up my mind to abandon it — just as the Independent Communications Authority of SA wakes up to the need to do something about this dismal bullying monopoly. My decision wasn’t made lightly but it was a long time coming — probably nine years and 11 months, now that I think about it. MultiChoice’s decision to save a few bob by not posting out the printed programme nearly did the trick eight or so years ago. But I held on. Admittedly, the printed programme was just a rough guess at what might appear at any particular time on your screen, but there was some comfort in the structure it pretended to provide to those of us of a pre-digital mindset. And there was the constant reminder that the programme was the best they could do given that the schedule had not been finalised at the time of going to print. That excuse foole...
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