741,000 pay TV subscribers in Ecuador at end-June 2013

Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
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Ecuador’s Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (SUPERTEL) has released pay TV statistics for the country at the end of June 2013. There were 741 thousand subscribers in the Republic at that date, up from 685 thousand at the end of March, and up from 455 thousand at the same time in 2012.

Transmission         Number of    Number of
system               operators  subscribers
-------------------  ---------  -----------
Satellite                    4      333,574
  DIRECTV                           288,780
  CNT TV                             44,794
Terrestrial                 20       52,518
Cable                      250      355,095
-------------------  ---------  -----------
TOTAL                      274      741,187

Number of subscribers (SUPERTEL historic statistics):

              2Q 2013  1Q 2013  4Q 2012  3Q 2012  2Q 2012  1Q 2012
              -------  -------  -------  -------  -------  -------
Satellite     333,574  296,848  129,502   90,955   93,193   90,955
  DIRECTV     288,780  252,054  101,540   90,955   93,193   90,955
  CNT-TV       44,794*  44,794*  27,962        -        -        -
Terrestrial    52,518   51,991   50,768   47,597   48,361   51,467
Cable         355,095  337,024  320,623  315,417  313,060  290,887
              -------  -------  -------  -------  -------  -------
  TOTAL       741,187  685,863  500,893  453,969  454,614  433,309

* January 2013 number?