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LG Uplus ends 2013 with 1.55 million IPTV subscribers
Jan 13, 2014 – According to the December 2013 Factsheet published by LG Uplus (KRX: 032640), the company had 1.549 million IPTV subscribers at the end of 2013, up from 1.054 million at the end of 2012.
News categories: LG Uplus, IPTV, Korea, Subscribers

SK broadband ends 2013 with 2.1 million IPTV subscribers
Jan 10, 2014 – SK broadband (KOSDAQ: 033630) has released subscriber figures to the end of December 2013. The company ended the year with 2.1 million subscribers to its ‘B tv’ IPTV service, up from 1.45 million at the end of 2012.
News categories: SK broadband, IPTV, Korea, Subscribers

Digital TV homes to triple in Sub-Saharan Africa
Jan 8, 2014 – Digital penetration will exceed half the TV households in Sub-Saharan Africa very soon, according to a report from Digital TV Research. The Digital TV Sub-Saharan Africa Forecasts report estimates nearly every home will be converted by 2020.
News categories: Simon Murray, Africa, Cable TV, Digital TV, Digital TV Research Reports, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial

One million customers for Swisscom TV
Jan 6, 2014 – The number of customers watching Swisscom TV has surpassed the one million mark, thanks to record growth of over 200,000 new customers in the last twelve months.
News categories: Swisscom, Marc Werner, Digital TV, IPTV, Subscribers, Switzerland

Emerging markets lead IPTV subscription growth through 2018
Dec 20, 2013 – Global IPTV subscriptions are expected to reach 102 million in 2018, with the fastest growth coming from Latin America and Africa and the Middle East, according to the newest report from Pyramid Research.
News categories: Pyramid Research, Leslie Arathoon, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Subscribers

Ecuador adds 108,000 pay TV subscribers in 3Q 2013
Dec 19, 2013 – Ecuador's Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (SUPERTEL) has released pay TV statistics for the country at the end of September 2013. There were 849 thousand subscribers in the Republic at that date, up from 741 thousand at the end of June, and up from 454 thousand at the same time in 2012.
News categories: SUPERTEL, Cable TV, Digital TV, Ecuador, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Spain's rate of pay TV subscriber loss slows to 31,000 in 3Q 2013
Dec 18, 2013 – Spain's Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT) has published statistics for the third quarter of 2013. Total pay TV subscribers dropped to 3.74 million at the end of the quarter, down from around 4.20 million the year before.
News categories: Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Mobile, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers, Terrestrial

3.2 million pay TV subscribers in Ukraine's 33 largest cities
Dec 17, 2013 – Ukraine's Chamber of Telecommunications (Telekompalata) has released pay TV subscriber figures for the country for the 3rd quarter of 2013. The figures, by city, are broken down by operator.
News categories: Telekompalata, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, Ukraine

Tricolor TV registers 10 millionth paying subscriber
Dec 15, 2013 – Russia's Tricolor TV has announced that it now has more than 10 million paying subscribers and 13.995 million subscribers in total, thus making it the largest satellite TV provider in Europe by this measure.
News categories: Tricolor TV, Digital TV, Russia, Satellite, Subscribers