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RESEARCH ROUND-UP
Cable loses
TV subs
European Union: Total pay-TV subscription revenue (€m)
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
Cable
Annual total
TV revenue
Annual Internet
revenue
Annual telephony
revenue
Analysis of figures pro8,211
8,654
9,168
9,483
9,647
10,151
10,474 11,071
11,511
vided by IHS
Electronics & Media
2,668
3,330
3,947
4,320
4,483
4,879
5,268
5,676
6,193
suggest that although
cable operators in the
2,680
2,856
2,987
3,006
3,064
3,389
3,669
3,901
4,154
EU experienced growth
in Internet and telephony subscriber numbers
Source: IHS
in 2013 compared with
the previous year, overEuropean Union: Cable operator subscribers (m)
all, TV subscribers were
down 1.4%, at 56.85m
compared with 57.66.
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
Internet subscribers rose
Analogue TV
54
51
48
44
40
36
32
29
26
7.09% from 27.13m to
Digital TV
7
10
13
17
21
23
26
29
31
29.06m, with telephony
Total TV
61
61
61
61
61
59
58
58
57
subscribers up 5.54% from
Internet
10
13
16
19
21
23
25
27
29
22.18m to 23.41m, with
Telephony
8
10
12
14
17
19
20
22
23
total RGUs (Revenue
Total RGUs
79
84
89
94
98
101
104
107
109
Generating Units) up 2.19%
from 106.97m to 109.93m.
Source: IHS
Nevertheless, annual
total TV revenue rose 3.97% from €11.07 billion
€339.91m.
29m subscribers each. Increased digitalisation
to €11.51 billion, with on demand revenue
Digital TV subscribers overtook analogue in
of cable networks in Europe saw analogue fall
marking an 18.06% increase, from €287m to
2013, with both having ended 2012 with some
to 26m and digital rise to 31m.
Global pay-TV subs to
top 1.1bn
ABI Research’s latest Pay TV ARPU and
Revenues Market Data report has
found that worldwide pay-TV market
reached 903.3m subscribers in 2013,
generating $249.8 billion in service revenue. IPTV operators enjoyed significant growth (18.5 per cent YoY) in 2013
to 92m subscribers with a total of $37.2
billion in service revenue.
“Increasing FTTH subscriber base and
bundled subscriber base of telcos are boosting
the IPTV market. ABI Research forecasts that
the IPTV subscriber base will grow to 161 million subscribers in 2019 accounting for 15 per
cent of overall pay-TV market,” commented
Jake Saunders, VP and practice director of
core forecasting.
The cable TV market grew at the slowest
rate among different pay-TV platforms with
only three per cent YoY growth, ending 2013
with 570.2m subscribers. Cable TV subscribers in Western Europe and North
America declined around 1 per cent and 1.5
per cent respectively in 2013. However, cable
TV X\