Pay TV subscribers in Portugal up 3.2% in 1Q 2012
Monday, June 4th, 2012According to Portugal’s Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações (ANACOM), there were 3.073 million subscribers to subscription TV as at the end of 1st Quarter 2012 (1Q2012), 96 thousand more than in the previous quarter.
At the end of March, cable TV accounted for 48% of pay-TV subscribers – 0.6 percentage points down on the previous quarter – while DTH accounted for 22.9% and xDSL 19.1%. The share of fiber optic (FTTH/B) continued to increase, accounting for 10% of total subscribers.
In terms of numbers, subscribers to cable television – around 1.48 million – increased by about 28,000 over the previous quarter. Direct To Home (DTH) subscribers reached 704,000, an increase of 5,000 over the previous quarter and 33,000 up on the same period of 2011, and Fiber optic (FTTH/B) pay-TV subscribers increased 16.7%, to 307,000. IPTV over xDSL registered 587,000 customers at the end of March, 20,000 more than in the previous quarter.
Turning to operator share, ZON/TV Cabo had 52.8% of customers, PTC had 36.1%, and Cabovisão, the third largest operator, had 8.4% of the market.
Subscription television service subscribers by technology (Units: 1000 subscribers; %)
Quarterly Annual 11Q1 11Q4 12Q1 variation variation ----- ----- ----- --------- --------- Cable 1,428 1,447 1,475 1.9% 3.3% DTH 671 699 704 0.7% 4.9% FTTH 168 263 307 16.7% 82.8% Other technologies (xDSL, FWA) 538 567 587 3.5% 9.1% Total 2,806 2,977 3,073 3.2% 9.5%
Source: ICP-ANACOM
Provider shares of subscription TV service subscribers (Unit: %):
11Q3 11Q4 12Q1 ----- ----- ----- Grupo ZON/TV Cabo 54.7% 53.9% 52.8% ZON TV Cabo Portugal 49.4% 48.8% 47.9% ZON TV Cabo Açoreana 2.5% 2.4% 2.3% ZON TV Cabo Madeirense 2.9% 2.8% 2.6% PT Comunicações 33.5% 35.0% 36.1% Cabovisão 8.8% 8.6% 8.4% AR Telecom 0.7% - - Vodafone 0.9% 1.2% 1.3% Optimus 1.2% 1.2% 1.2% Other providers 0.2% 0.1% 0.1%
Source: ICP-ANACOM
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