Brazil Pay TV subscriber base grew 30.7% in 2010

According to Brazil’s Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel), the country’s pay TV subscriber base ended 2010 at 9,768,993, up 2,295,517 in the year. In December, 237,936 subscribers were added – a growth of 2.5% in the month.

Pay TV subscribers:

                          Year-on-year
       Year-end  ---------------------
Year      Total  Additions  Growth (%)
----  ---------  ---------  ----------
2006  4,583,125    406,767        9.70
2007  5,348,571    765,446       16.70
2008  6,320,852    972,281       18.18
2009  7,473,476  1,152,624       18.24
2010  9,768,993  2,295,517       30.72