{"id":203870,"date":"2025-08-03T03:46:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T01:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-sam-george-directs-nca-to-suspend-dstv-license-on-august-7-over-high-prices\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T03:46:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T01:46:58","slug":"ghana-sam-george-directs-nca-to-suspend-dstv-license-on-august-7-over-high-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-sam-george-directs-nca-to-suspend-dstv-license-on-august-7-over-high-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Sam George Directs Nca to Suspend DStv License On August 7 Over High Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, Sam George, has instructed the National Communications Authority (NCA) to suspend the broadcasting license of pay-TV operator DStv from August 7, 2025, if the company fails to reduce its subscription prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Mr. George said the directive follows DStv&#8217;s refusal to lower prices despite the recent appreciation of the Ghanaian cedi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">He argued that Ghanaians were paying significantly more for the same services compared to subscribers in other African&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508010410.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, Sam George, has instructed the National Communications Authority (NCA) to suspend the broadcasting license of pay-TV operator DStv from August 7, 2025, if the company fails to reduce its subscription prices. Mr. George said the directive follows DStv&#8217;s refusal to lower prices despite the recent appreciation of the Ghanaian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":203871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,8060,9251,21474,9193,4508,4509,6184,8329,8929,257,10246,15667,254,12719],"class_list":["post-203870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-august","tag-directs","tag-dstv","tag-george","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-high","tag-license","tag-nca","tag-news","tag-prices","tag-sam","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspend"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}