Brazil's pay TV subscriber growth drops off in 2Q 2013
Thursday, August 8th, 2013According to Brazil’s Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel), the country’s pay TV subscriber base ended June 2013 at 16.96 million, with more than 2.4 million new subscribers being added over the preceding 12 months – an annual growth rate of 16.7%. Satellite accounted for over 2 million of the net additions.
In the second quarter, however, only 151.7 thousand new subscribers were added, with satellite adding only 121 thousand. The number of additions has greatly reduced compared with previous quarters. In the second quarter of 2012, Brazil added 860,000 subscribers to its total, and 620,000 were added in the first quarter of 2013.
Pay TV subscribers by technology:
2012 2013 Change Change ---------------------------------------------- ---------------------- 2Q 2013 2Q 2013 1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 1Q 2Q v, 1Q 2013 v, 2Q 2012 ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- MMDS 217,729 189,658 163,895 142,113 101,289 33,459 -67,830 -156,199 Cable 5,714,957 5,893,447 6,074,535 6,199,159 6,337,134 6,438,784 101,650 545,337 DTH 7,738,880 8,448,529 9,157,412 9,844,090 10,367,271 10,488,684 121,413 2,040,155 Others 3,841 3,549 3,593 3,595 3,580 66 -3,514 -3,483 ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Total 13,675,407 14,535,183 15,399,435 16,188,957 16,809,274 16,960,993 151,719 2,425,810
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