Spain ends 2007 with 295,000 mobile TV subscribers

According to data from the Annual Report of the Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones (CMT), the number of pay-TV subscribers in Spain at the end of 2007 was 3.98 million, with revenues growing 5.4% over the previous year to reach €2.010 billion. Income from IPTV rose by 64% to €130.5 million, while mobile TV, in its first year of introduction, acquired 295,246 subscribers with a turnover of €8.7 million.

Trend in the number of pay TV subscribers by transmission medium* (in thousands)

                 2004     2005     2006     2007
              -------  -------  -------  -------
Satellite     1,652.6  1,960.7  2,044.0  2,065.1
Terrestrial     441.2      1.8        -        -
Cable TV      1,107.4  1,201.9  1,304.4  1,345.9
IPTV                -    206.6    396.7    569.2

Source: CMT

* Excluding mobile television

More: CMT Annual Report [Sp]; Presentation [Sp]