Ecuador adds 140,000 pay TV subscribers in 2015

QUITO — Ecuador’s Agencia de Regulación y Control de las Telecomunicaciones (ARCOTEL) has released pay TV statistics for the country to the end of 2015. Ecuador finished the year with 1,351,470 pay TV subscribers, up 140,895 versus the end of 2014.

                          2010     2011     2012     2013       2014       2015
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Number of Subscribers  324,550  422,086  650,870  943,565  1,210,575  1,351,470
Additions               71,697   97,536  228,784  292,695    267,010    140,895

Satellite TV provider DIRECTV was the market leader with a subscriber share of 33.91%.

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