Portugal adds 28,000 pay TV subscribers in 1Q 2016
Tuesday, June 21st, 2016LISBON — According to Portugal’s Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações (ANACOM), there were 3.545 million subscribers to subscription TV in the country at the end of the first quarter of 2016, 28,000 more than in the previous quarter, and an extra 150,000 (+4.4 percent) compared to the same point in 2015.
At the end of March, cable TV represented 38.0 percent of total subscribers, with DTH comprising 17.1 percent, and xDSL/IP making up 20.8 percent. Optical fibre (FTTH/B) continued to add share accounting for 24.1 percent of all subscribers.
Subscription television service subscribers by technology (Units: 1000 subscribers; %)
Quarterly Annual 15Q1 15Q2 15Q3 15Q4 16Q1 variation variation ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- --------- ---------- Cable (Cabo) 1,360 1,354 1,353 1,347 1,345 -2 -15 -1.1% DTH 604 607 609 610 607 -3 3 0.5% FTTH/B 671 715 761 812 854 42 184 27.4% xDSL/IP 760 755 751 748 738 -9 -21 -2.8% ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- --------- ---------- Total 3,395 3,431 3,473 3,517 3,545 28 150 4.4%
Source: ANACOM
Shares of subscription TV subscribers (Units: %)
15Q1 15Q2 15Q3 15Q4 16Q1 ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ Grupo NOS 43.8% 43.7% 43.7% 43.8% 44.0% Grupo Altice* - 47.1% 41.1% 40.7% 40.2% MEO - 41.5% 41.1% 40.7% 40.2% Cabovisão 6.0% 5.7% - - - PT Comunicações/MEO 41.9% - - - - Cabovisão - - 5.4% 5.1% 4.9% Vodafone 8.2% 9.0% 9.6% 10.2% 10.7% Other providers 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.1%
* Altice was required to sell Cabovisão by the competition authorities in order to receive approval for its takeover of MEO.
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