Brazil has 7.16 million households with pay TV

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
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According to Brazil’s Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel), 62,186 new pay TV subscribers were added in the country in October giving a total 7,160,566 households with pay TV.

Subscribers by technology:

              Jan        Feb        Mar        Apr        May
        ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
Cable   3,836,181  3,906,844  3,969,642  3,983,063  4,054,754
MMDS      399,237    394,878    388,094    391,384    387,952
DTH     2,116,701  2,122,668  2,174,312  2,211,869  2,257,055
Others     22,576     22,576     22,731     23,821     24,324
        ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
 TOTAL  6,374,695  6,446,966  6,554,779  6,610,137  6,724,085

              Jun        Jul        Aug        Sep        Oct
        ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
Cable   4,097,131  4,156,976  4,215,698  4,262,932  4,287,580
MMDS      385,197    378,522    375,199    371,159    364,882
DTH     2,295,403  2,349,874  2,398,074  2,439,968  2,483,783
Others     24,324     24,324     24,323     24,321     24,321
        ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
 TOTAL  6,802,055  6,909,696  7,013,294  7,098,380  7,160,566