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Airtel Digital TV adds 499,000 subscribers in 2Q 2017
Jul 25, 2017 – Bharti Airtel has announced results for its first quarter ended June 30, 2017. DTH had 13.3 million customers at the end of the quarter, up 9.6% year-on-year. Net customer additions were 499 thousand.
News categories: Bharti Airtel, Digital TV, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Pirate pay TV in 7% of TV households in Latin America
Jul 19, 2017 – According to Dataxis, Pay-TV piracy reached 7% of TV households in Latin America in 2016, with 11.8 million consumers. Total illegal access to Pay-TV could be positioned as the third largest player on the market, behind América Móvil and DIRECTV.
News categories: Dataxis, Content Protection, Digital TV, Latin America, Market Research, Subscribers

US pay TV market lost 612,000 subscribers in Q1 2017
Jul 14, 2017 – US Pay-TV market in the United States started 2017 with a slight decline. According to Dataxis, the total number of subscribers reached 100.3 million for the first quarter of 2017, which represent a fall of 612,000 compared to Q4 2016.
News categories: Dataxis, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, USA

Top 50 operators take two-thirds of global pay TV subs
Jul 10, 2017 – Pay TV subscriptions for 522 operators reached 839 million in 2016 – or 87% of the 959 million global subscribers, and the top 50 operators accounted for two-thirds of the total, according to Digital TV Research.
News categories: Digital TV Research, Simon Murray, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, Worldwide

India adds 0.96 million active DTH subscribers in 1Q 2017
Jul 5, 2017 – According to figures submitted to TRAI, active satellite pay TV subscriptions in India reached 63.61 million at the end of March 2017, up 0.96 million versus the end of 2016. In India there are 6 pay DTH service providers.
News categories: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Digital TV, India, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers

SVOD subscribers in Latin America to reach 33.5 million in 2022
Jun 27, 2017 – According to Dataxis, SVOD services are showing great potential growth in Latin America and are expected to reach 17.4 million in 2017. Moreover, Dataxis forecasts that the market will double in volume to reach 33.5 million in 2022.
News categories: Dataxis, Digital TV, Latin America, Market Research, Streaming, Subscribers

Pay-TV subscribers in Latin America to reach 88.7 million in 2022
Jun 14, 2017 – According to Dataxis, Pay TV subscribers in Latin America are expected to reach 73.7 million at the end of 2017. The market in Latin America still shows room for further growth but expectations for the medium term are moderate.
News categories: Dataxis, Digital TV, Latin America, Market Research, Subscribers

Global pay TV subscribers reach 969 million
Jun 12, 2017 – Digital TV Research has estimated that 254 million pay TV subscribers were added between 2010 and 2016 to take the global total to 969 million. Cable TV created the most digital additions as it switched over from analogue.
News categories: Digital TV Research, Simon Murray, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, Worldwide

Netflix to reach 128 million subscribers by 2022
Jun 5, 2017 – Digital TV Research has forecast that Netflix will have 128 million subscribers by 2022, up by 44% from 89 million at end-2016. The report estimates that international subscribers will exceed those in the US by early 2018.
News categories: Digital TV Research, Netflix, Simon Murray, Digital TV, Market Research, Streaming, Subscribers, Worldwide