Satellite TV subscribers pass the 1 million mark in Chile
Thursday, August 1st, 2013
Chile’s Subsecretaría de Telecomunicaciones (Subtel) has released pay TV statistics to the end of March 2013. From the end of March 2012, satellite subscribers increased from 943,844 to 1,039,535 (up 10.1%) whereas wired (cable TV and IPTV) subscribers only grew from 1,162,383 to 1,205,918 (up 3.7%), giving a total for the country of 2.245 million, up 4.5% year-on-year.
DIRECTV was the fastest growing service adding 27% to its subscriber total over the preceding 12 months.
Pay TV subscribers:
Mar-12 Jun-12 Sep-12 Dec-12 Mar-13 --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- Operator VTR Telefónica S.A. 914,223 917,750 912,153 926,047 948,586 Telefónica Multimedia 395,157 402,535 402,668 418,292 435,641 Claro Comunicaciones S.A. 409,203 403,742 371,710 383,617 405,312 DIRECTV Chile Ltda. 246,587 255,689 244,496 284,687 313,528 Telefónica del Sur 51,561 52,460 54,123 56,905 60,099 PACIFICO CABLE S.A. 55,329 57,890 58,905 61,178 52,412 GTD IMAGEN S.A. 14,227 14,786 14,903 15,810 17,257 Cable Central 10,157 10,172 9,797 9,828 9,961 TU VES S.A. 9,783 6,574 4,589 3,615 2,657 --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- Connection type Wired (IPTV/Cable) 1,162,383 1,168,831 1,159,513 1,177,637 1,205,918 Satellite 943,844 952,767 913,831 982,342 1,039,535 --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- Total 2,106,227 2,121,598 2,073,344 2,159,979 2,245,453
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