Costa Rica TV subscriptions up 6.2% in 2018
Thursday, August 1st, 2019
SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica — Costa Rica’s Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (SUTEL) has releases statistics for the country’s telecoms market in 2018.
At the end of the year there were 31 companies providing subscription television in Costa Rica, with 25 offering cable TV, two offering IPTV and the remainder delivering signals using wireless technologies (satellite, MMDS).
Costa Rica finished 2018 with 884 thousand pay TV subscribers, with the majority (67%) receiving signals via cable. Next was satellite (DTH) with 29%. The market grew by 52 thousand (6.2%) over the year.
Subscribers by technology
Technology 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 ----------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- Cable TV 510,390 531,807 548,113 563,607 594,508 DTH 217,140 257,986 257,486 244,881 255,193 IPTV 4,191 6,434 14,702 22,054 33,075 MMDS 825 1,003 1,274 1,365 1,107 ----------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- Total 732,546 797,230 821,575 831,907 883,883
Total subscribers by quarter
End-Q1 End-Q2 End-Q3 End-Q4 ---- ------- ------- ------- ------- 2017 825,490 827,804 827,728 831,907 2018 840,554 861,815 866,504 883,883
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