Telefónica dominates pay TV growth in Spain
Sunday, December 28th, 2014Spain’s Markets and Competition Commission (Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia – CNMC) has published telecommunications and audiovisual statistics for the country for the third quarter of 2014.
In the quarter, total pay TV subscribers rose by 400,000 to reach 4.71 million, driven almost entirely by growth in IPTV subscribers. Year-on-year, the market grew by 969,000 subscribers, with Telefónica accounting for more than 100% of the total, adding 992,000 over the preceding 12 months.
Pay TV subscribers by technology:
III/2013 IV/2013 I/2014 II/2014 III/2014 Δ Q-o-Q Δ Y-o-Y Δ Y-o-Y --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ------- ------- ------- Satellite 1,633,527 1,620,632 1,631,607 1,597,311 1,580,313 -16,998 -53,214 -3.3% Cable 1,176,382 1,142,015 1,128,605 1,141,636 1,131,062 -10,574 -45,320 -3.9% IPTV 673,482 817,154 947,748 1,296,592 1,665,765 369,173 992,283 147.3% DTT 234,795 237,178 232,084 247,153 237,900 -9,253 3,105 1.3% Others 21,952 28,399 29,779 26,664 94,532 67,868 72,580 330.6% Mobile TV 119,501 117,957 118,474 49,028 48,465 -563 -71,036 -59.4% --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ------- ------- ------- TOTAL 3,740,138 3,845,378 3,969,823 4,309,356 4,709,572 400,216 969,434 25.9%
Pay TV subscribers by provider:
III/2013 IV/2013 I/2014 II/2014 III/2014 Δ Q-o-Q Δ Y-o-Y Δ Y-o-Y --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ------- ------- ------- DTS (Canal+) 1,655,479 1,649,031 1,661,386 1,623,975 1,674,845 50,870 19,366 1.2% Ono 807,429 789,895 781,850 777,667 775,144 -2,523 -32,285 -4.0% Telefónica 611,251 741,126 861,252 1,205,797 1,576,779 370,982 965,528 158.0% GolTV 234,795 237,178 232,084 247,153 237,900 -9,253 3,105 1.3% TeleCable 128,175 125,953 127,424 128,109 128,910 801 735 0.6% Euskaltel 118,718 106,768 102,154 120,970 113,222 -7,748 -5,496 -4.6% R 101,240 98,009 95,483 93,086 91,944 -1,142 -9,296 -9.2% Orange 62,231 76,028 86,496 90,795 88,986 -1,809 26,755 43.0% Others 20,820 21,390 21,694 21,804 21,842 38 1,022 4.9% --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ------- ------- ------- Total 3,740,138 3,845,378 3,969,823 4,309,356 4,709,572 400,216 969,434 25.9%
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