Satellite TV subscribers in Croatia pass the 100,000 mark

The Croatian Post and Electronic Communications Agency (Hrvatska agencija za poštu i elektroničke komunikacije – HAKOM) has reported communications market data for the country for the end of the third quarter of 2012.

Satellite TV is the fastest growing segment of the television market with subscriptions once again over 100,000, having increased by nearly 21 percent since a low point of 85,000 in the second half of 2011.

IPTV remains the leader of the pay TV market with more than 350,000 subscribers.

Television households:

                                   quarterly change    annual change
                          Q3 2012   Q3 2012-Q2 2012  Q3 2012-Q3 2011
                          -------  ----------------  ---------------
Cable                     144,608            -0.60%            0.12%
IPTV                      355,869             0.91%            1.93%
Satellite                 102,763             5.26%           20.93%
Digital terrestrial*      892,468            -0.83%           -2.69%

* The number of Digital terrestrial households = 1,535,635 (the number of households in the Republic of Croatia according to the 2011 census) – 2.6% (households without TV) – (number of Cable + IPTV + Satellite subscribers)