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Airtel Digital TV adds 339,000 subscribers in 2Q 2015
Aug 4, 2015 – Bharti Airtel has announced results for the first quarter ended June 30, 2015. As on June 30, 2015, DTH had 10.4 million customers, which represents an increase of 10.9% as compared to the corresponding quarter last year.
News categories: Airtel, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Charter residential video customers down 33,000 in 2Q 2015
Aug 4, 2015 – Charter Communications has reported results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2015. Residential video customers decreased by 33,000 in the second quarter of 2015, versus a loss of 29,000 in the year-ago period.
News categories: Charter, Cable TV, Content Protection, Digital TV, Results, Set Top Box, Subscribers, USA

Pay TV in 21% of TV households in East Africa
Jul 31, 2015 – According to research by Dataxis, in the five countries of the East African Community (EAC), DTT had an overall 53% share of pay TV users, followed by DTH with 43% and the remainder on CATV systems in Kenya and Tanzania.
News categories: Dataxis, Burundi, Cable TV, Digital TV, Kenya, Market Research, Rwanda, Satellite, Subscribers, Tanzania, Terrestrial, Uganda

Pricing pressure drags on TV Set-Top Box market
Jul 30, 2015 – IHS (NYSE: IHS) has reported that unit shipments of set-top boxes worldwide were up 3% from the year-ago first quarter. IHS expects particularly strong unit growth for HDMI dongles such as Google’s Chromecast, Roku HDMI sticks, Amazon’s Fire TV Stick HDTV, and virtual set-top boxes.
News categories: Infonetics, Jeff Heynen, Digital TV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Worldwide

High churn rates for U.S. OTT video services
Jul 30, 2015 – Parks Associates’ OTT Video Market Tracker has revealed high churn rates for many OTT video services. In the past 12 months, 4% of U.S. broadband households have cancelled their Netflix service, representing nearly 9% of Netflix’s current subscriber base.
News categories: Parks Associates, Brett Sappington, Digital TV, Market Research, Streaming, USA

Time Warner Cable residential video subscribers down 45,000 in 2Q 2015
Jul 30, 2015 – Time Warner Cable (NYSE:TWC) has reported financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2015. Residential video net subscribers declined 45,000 in the quarter – the best second quarter since 2008.
News categories: Time Warner Cable, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers, USA

BT TV adds 60,000 subscribers in 2Q 2015
Jul 30, 2015 – BT Group (BT.L) has announced its results for the first quarter to 30 June 2015. In the quarter, BT added 60,000 BT TV customers, taking its TV customer base to 1.2 million.
News categories: BT Group, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, UK

STB shipments to South Asian countries rise 20% in Q2 2015
Jul 30, 2015 – The set-top box (STB) market in major South Asian countries (Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) is witnessing steady and robust growth, as digitisation in India and other countries in the region is propelling the demand for STBs, according to Dataxis.
News categories: Dataxis, Sreeja Vn, Bangladesh, Cable TV, Digital TV, India, Market Research, Nepal, Pakistan, Satellite, Set Top Box, Sri Lanka

Central American pay-TV subscribers to hit 5.57 million by 2018
Jul 29, 2015 – The number of pay-TV subscribers in Central America and the Dominican Republic will grow from 3.58 million in 2014 to 5.57 million in 2018, according to findings in a report published by Dataxis.
News categories: Dataxis, Central America, Digital TV, Dominican Republic, Market Research, Subscribers