DIRECTV leads Ecuador's pay TV market in 2Q 2014

QUITO — Ecuador’s Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (SUPERTEL) has released pay TV statistics for the top 10 pay TV operators in the country to the end of June 2014. These operators cover 80% of the market.

DIRECTV’s satellite service was the leader with a share of 35% (391 thousand subscribers). CAN TV was second with a share of 20% (217 thousand subscribers).

Operator                    2013 1Q  2013 2Q  2013 3Q  2013 4Q  2014 1Q  2014 2Q
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1 DIRECTV                   288,780  304,686  317,012  325,485  377,767  390,812
2 CNT TV                     44,794   92,265  114,268  142,731  179,379  216,534
3 SISTEMA TV CABLE (Quito)   62,219   70,786   72,818   73,289   73,273   73,163
4 SATELCOM (Guayaquil)       54,158   62,323   65,838   65,073   66,021   67,274
5 CABLEUNION (Quito)         29,522   28,830   30,013   31,423   32,044   33,052
6 TV NET (Guayaquil)         22,612   24,124   24,744   24,966   24,185   24,114
7 UNIVISA (Quito)            19,627   27,428   27,229   26,378   25,337   23,601
8 PUERTO CABLE (Machala)     10,217   10,586   10,586   16,044   16,044   16,044
9 UNIVISA (Guayaquil)        13,602   21,608   21,631   20,392   20,392   13,630
10 CLARO TV                       -        -        -    5,068   15,968   13,415