Ecuador adds 443 thousand pay TV subscribers in 2013

Ecuador’s Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (SUPERTEL) has released pay TV statistics for the country at the end of December 2013. There were 944 thousand subscribers in the Republic at that date, up from 849 thousand at the end of September 2013, and up from 501 thousand at the end of 2012.

Number of subscribers (SUPERTEL historic statistics):

              4Q 2013  3Q 2013  2Q 2013  1Q 2013  4Q 2012  3Q 2012  2Q 2012  1Q 2012
              -------  -------  -------  -------  -------  -------  -------  -------
Satellite     473,284  398,065  333,574  296,848  129,502   90,955   93,193   90,955
Terrestrial    59,186   70,240   52,518   51,991   50,768   47,597   48,361   51,467
Cable         411,095  381,556  355,095  337,024  320,623  315,417  313,060  290,887
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  TOTAL       943,565  849,861  741,187  685,863  500,893  453,969  454,614  433,309