What you should know about the Safaricom (theBIGBox) free to air setup box

Competition is stiff in the media sector as safaricom launches their free to air digital TV decoder today. This is what you should expect from the “theBIGbox.”

The BIG box decoder is designed in a big shape almost taking recembrance of a video game player. “theBIGBox” will have 3G/4G Internet capabilities, and it will act as an in-house Wi-Fi router(hotspot) and its connectivity capabilities is 10 devices. The Box has HD capabilities that ensure perfect video streaming straight to your Television set. It also comes with free to air channels and will be able to receive Bamba channels like Aljazeera.

You are not expected to pay a monthly subscription fee for the channels but you should pay for the bundles. You only find “theBIGBox” at the safaricom shop outlets but its price tag is quite surprising compared to other setup boxes. It is going for KSH 10000 and comes with 6 months free internet.

Well due to its high cost, safaricom has become lenient and has offered an easy payment method that will cost you an extra Ksh 1000. You will be expected to pay Ksh 5000 and then KSH 1000 every month for 6 months. After the finishing the installments you will have paid a total of KSH 11,000.

The price is quite high for many people to afford during this hard economic times and considering it’s just few days just after people have spent on back to school issues. Despite its high price its convenient for frequent internet users since the bundles they are offering are quite convincing