NOVEMBER 8, 2006 - Cable TV operators continue to expand the reach of their cable video and high-speed data services, reports In-Stat (http://www.in-stat.com). While this service expansion is delivering only modest total household growth, it is being offset by solid service revenue gains. Overall, rising consumer demand for more TV content, combined with the rollout of new voice, video, and data services, is enabling cable TV operators to maintain a market leadership position in both pay-TV services and telecommunications service bundling, the high-tech market research firm says.

“In many parts of the world, the cable TV industry is currently riding a swell of improving business and customer satisfaction,” says Mike Paxton, In-Stat analyst. “This condition is especially notable because the global cable industry has historically had a less-than-stellar reputation for both customer service and overall service value.”

Recent research by In-Stat found the following:
• Out of the 1.2 billion TV households around the world, 355 million are currently cable TV households.
• Total worldwide cable TV households are still increasing, although at a modest pace. At the end of 2005, there were 349 million worldwide cable TV households.
• China, with 106 million cable TV households, and the United States, with 69 million cable households, are the two largest cable TV markets.
• Cable modem service continues to be a “cash cow” for cable operators. Worldwide cable modem service revenues are on track to reach $26 billion in 2006, up from $22 billion in 2005.

Recent In-Stat research, In-Depth Analysis: The Worldwide Cable TV Market: Cable Modem and Video Subscribers (#IN0603202MBS), covers the market for cable modem service and cable TV video service. The research discusses technology standards and market dynamics for cable modem services around the world, provides regional and country-by-country subscriber data for cable modem services, and forecasts subscriber growth through 2010. It also provides regional and country-by-country subscriber data for cable TV service, with a special emphasis on digital cable TV service. Forecasts for both worldwide cable TV subscribers and worldwide digital cable TV subscribers by geographic region through 2010 are provided.

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This research is part of In-Stat’s Multimedia Broadband Service, which provides a worldwide, comprehensive perspective of multimedia broadband markets, analyzing cable, video-over-DSL, DBS, and IPTV services, and digital terrestrial broadcast. It examines subscribers, business models, industry agendas, and key cross-market combatants.

For information on the competing worldwide digital satellite pay-TV market, check out In-Stat’s recent research: http://www.instat.com/abstract.asp?id=39&SKU=IN0502139MB

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