DStv Mobile – the new “watch wherever you are” broadcast television service that can be accessed by a number of DVB-H enabled cellphones and select Wi-Fi and USB enabled devices – is set to change the way viewers watch their favourite DStv Channels.

DStv Mobile can be accessed using the Drifta mobile decoder that is compatible with cellphones, laptops, smartphones and tablets.

Subscribers can stay current with sports, news and entertainment, wherever they go.

Coverage

DStv Mobile coverage is available in the nine major cities of South Africa: Johannesburg (including Soweto), Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria, Port Elizabeth, Polokwane, Mbombela, Rustenburg and Bloemfontein.

There are three bouquets to choose from:

DStv Mobile Subscription Costs

Walka Handheld TV, Drifta & Drifta USB

• DStv Premium subscriber
  Fee - No payment.
  DStv Mobile will be offered at no extra subscription cost until 31 March 2013.
  

• Other DStv subscriber Fee - Monthly: R49

• Non-DStv subscriber
  Fee - Monthly: R49

The Drifta retails at R649 and is available at MultiChoice branches, agencies and select retail outlets.

The Drifta USB retails at R449 and is available at MultiChoice branches, agencies and select retail outlets.

Currently the Drifta is compatible with:

iOS
The following devices running iOS 5 or higher:

• iPod Touch
• iPhone
• iPad

Android

The following devices running Android Froyo (2.1, 2.2) or Gingerbread (2.3):

• Sony Ericsson Play (R800i)
• LG Optimus Black (LG P970)
• Motorola Defy (MB 525)
• HTC ChaCha
• HTC Desire
• HTC Desire S
• HTC Desire HD
• HTC Wildfire S
• Samsung Galaxy S (GT-I9000)
• Samsung Galaxy S II (GT-I9100)
• Samsung Galaxy Note
• Samsung Galaxy Tab 7" (GT-P1000, GT-P1010, GT-P1013, SPH-100, GT-P1000T, SHW-M180L, SHW-M180K, SHW-M180S, SMT-i9000, SGH-T849, SCH-I800, GT-P1000R, GT-P1000L, GT-P1000M, SC-01C, GT-P1000N)
  

Android Honeycomb (3)

• Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1" (GT-P7510, GT-P7500)
• Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9"
• Motorola XOOM (umts_everest)

BlackBerry
The following devices running BlackBerry OS 5 or higher

• BlackBerry Bold 9000
• BlackBerry Bold 9700
• BlackBerry Curve 8520
• BlackBerry Curve 8900
• BlackBerry Curve 9300

Windows

• PC's running Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7

Mac OS X

• Mac's running Mac OS X

Currently the Drifta USB is compatible with:

Windows

• PC's running Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7

Mac OS X

• Mac's running Mac OS X

Walka Handheld TV

The Walka Handheld TV is a slim, lightweight device with a 3.5” viewing screen providing digital visual and audio quality. Its introduction gives DStv Mobile subscribers even more ways to access mobile TV on the go, anywhere, anytime.

Price
The recommended retail price will be R699.

Handsets

• DStv Premium subscriber
  Fee - No payment.
  DStv Mobile will be offered at no extra subscription cost until 31 March 2013.

• Other DStv subscriber
  Fee - Weekly: R13
  Fee - Monthly: R49
  Your Service Provider may choose to offer you the service at a lower rate than the above as part of their own specials. Please contact them for details.

• Non-DStv subs criber
  Fee - Weekly: R13
  Fee - Monthly: R49
  Your Service Provider may choose to offer you the service at a lower rate than the above as part of their own specials. Please contact them for details.

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