Macedonia pay TV subscribers up 5.6% in 2014
Wednesday, July 1st, 2015
Macedonia’s Agency for Electronic Communications (АЕК) has released its latest report on development of the electronic communication market up to the 4th quarter of 2014.
Macedonia finished 2014 with 359 thousand pay TV subscribers, up 5.6% year-on-year. the fastest growing segment was IPTV, up over 12% during the year. Cable TV remains the most popular platform with 186 thousand subscribers.
Makedonski Telekom was the leading operator with a subscriber share of 25%. Robi was second at 20% and ONE and Blizoo were third and fourth, each with shares of around 16%.
Pay TV subscribers
Q4 2014 Q3 2014 Change (%) Q4 2013 Change(%) ------- ------- ---------- ------- ---------- Cable TV 185,608 181,286 2.38% 178,955 3.72% IPTV 98,798 87,378 13.07% 88,125 12.11% DVB-T 58,506 58,256 0.43% 58,277 0.39% Satellite 15,921 15,203 4.72% 14,566 9.30% Total 358,833 342,123 4.88% 339,923 5.56%
Operator subscriber market shares
Q4 2014 ------- Makedonski Telekom 24.70% Robi 20.00% ONE 16.30% Blizoo 15.79% Total TV 4.44% T-Mobile 2.83% Inel Internacional 1.83% KDS Cable NET 1.83% Others 12.24%
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