Brazil adds 1.8 million pay TV subscribers in 2013
Friday, February 7th, 2014According to Brazil’s Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel), the country’s pay TV subscriber base ended December 2013 at 18.02 million, with more than 1.8 million new subscribers being added over the preceding 12 months – an annual growth rate of 11.3%. Satellite accounted for 1.3 million of the net additions.
In the fourth quarter, 424 thousand new subscribers were added, with satellite adding 290 thousand. In the equivalent quarter of 2012, Brazil added 790 thousand subscribers to its total.
Pay TV subscribers by technology:
2012 2013 Change Change ---------------------- ---------------------------------------------- 4Q 2013 4Q 2013 3Q 4Q 1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q v, 3Q 2013 v, 4Q 2012 ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- MMDS 163,895 142,113 101,289 33,758 15,907 19,747 3,840 -122,366 Cable 6,074,535 6,199,159 6,337,134 6,438,784 6,549,439 6,868,694 130,164 669,535 DTH 9,157,412 9,844,090 10,367,271 10,501,430 10,837,878 11,127,861 289,983 1,283,771 Others 3,593 3,595 3,580 66 3,541 3,375 -166 -220 ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Total 15,399,435 16,188,957 16,974,038 16,960,993 17,406,765 18,019,677 423,821 1,830,720
Pay TV subscribers by operator (end-December 2013):
Company Subscribers Share ------------- ----------- ------- Net/Embratel 9,660,973 53.61% Sky/DIRECTV 5,371,385 29.81% Oi 828,843 4.60% GVT 677,544 3.76% Telefônica 593,848 3.30% Viacabo 157,395 0.87% Algar 133,893 0.74% NossaTV 103,543 0.57% TV Cidade 60,847 0.34% Jangadeiro 54,713 0.30% Cabo Serviços 49,338 0.27% Others 327,355 1.82% ------------- ----------- ------- TOTAL 18,019,677 100.00%
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