Chile's Pay TV subscribers passed 2 million mark in 2011
Monday, May 7th, 2012Chile’s Subsecretaría de Telecomunicaciones (Subtel) has releases pay TV statistics for 2011. During the year, satellite subscribers increased from 853,000 to 930,000 whereas wired (cable TV and IPTV) subscribers grew from 1.076 million to 1.138 million, giving a total for the country of 2.067 million, up 7.2% year-on-year.
More than 40% of homes in Chile now subscribe to a pay TV service.
Subscribers:
Dec-08 Dec-09 Dec-10 Dec-11 --------- --------- --------- --------- Operator VTR Telefónica 874,206 897,715 893,183 910,682 Claro Comunicaciones 370,958 406,308 Telmex TV 199,550 239,992 Telmex Chile Telephony 65,291 Telefónica Multimedia 259,883 281,501 336,770 385,969 DIRECTV Chile 110,543 139,413 198,199 239,757 PACIFICO CABLE 46,611 53,572 Telefónica del Sur (Telsur) 26,677 34,557 48,720 TuVes 34,611 11,297 Cable Central 17,308 13,443 13,805 11,063 --------- --------- --------- --------- Connection type Satellite 569,833 660,717 853,019 929,743 Wired (IPTV/Cable) 891,657 1,003,315 1,075,675 1,137,625 --------- --------- --------- --------- Total 1,461,490 1,664,032 1,928,694 2,067,368
Market share:
Dec-08 Dec-09 Dec-10 Dec-11 ------ ------ ------ ------ VTR Telefónica 59.8% 53.9% 46.3% 44.1% Claro Comunicaciones 19.2% 19.7% Telmex TV 13.7% 14.4% Telmex Chile Telephony 3.9% Telefónica Multimedia 17.8% 16.9% 17.5% 18.7% DIRECTV Chile 7.6% 8.4% 10.3% 11.6% PACIFICO CABLE 2.4% 2.6% Telefónica del Sur (Telsur) 1.6% 1.8% 2.4% TuVes 1.8% 0.5% Cable Central 1.2% 0.8% 0.7% 0.5%
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