According to Uganda’s telecoms regulator (the Uganda Communications Commission) the country now has 2.1 million subscribers to pay-TV, and up from 1.4 million in a year. The Commission puts the growth down to last year’s World Cup which helped boost pay-TV take-up by 47 per cent between July and September last year. “The number of […]
Over the past few years, online video services in Europe have experienced rapid growth, particularly those that follow the subscription revenue model. Global players such as Netflix, Amazon and HBO went direct-to-consumer, disrupting the previous long-term relationship between subscribers and multichannel operators. Soon after Netflix began showing signs of success in North America and Western […]
According to an analysis by S&P Global Market Intelligence, total Asia-Pacific subscription online video revenues and subscribers continue to grow, primarily reflecting the success of the Chinese market. However, the analysis anticipates growth in all Asia-Pacific countries covered as digital infrastructures improve, local services increase the value of content behind the paywall and international services […]
A total of 421 national TV channels were available in Italy at the end of 2018, owned by 128 media groups, according to research by Confindustria Radio Televisioni. The figure includes DTT, satellite, time-shifted, HD, 3D, 4K, PPV and so-called temporary channels. Italian media groups own 360 TV channels, of which 129 are distributed via […]
The 2017 revenues of 81 French pay-TV channels dropped by 2 per cent over one year to €2.85 billion, following a 1 per cent decrease the previous year. According to the financial round-up established by French regulatory body CSA, which takes into account the global results from three DTT channels and 78 cable, dish and […]
France’s electronic communications Arcep is publishing has published its scoreboard for the fixed broadband and superfast broadband market (rollouts and subscriptions) in France as of the end of December 2018. This quarter confirms the ongoing progress in FTTH subscription numbers and rollouts. SUBSCRIPTIONS: Annual growth in the number of superfast access subscriptions reaches two million, […]
Panama’s mobile data, fixed broadband, and pay-TV services revenue totalled $1.4 billion in 2018. This is expected to grow to $1.6 billion in 2023, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.8 per cent, according to data and analytics company GlobalData. Cable Onda represented a majority 61.8 per cent of total fixed broadband lines […]
The Mexican video entertainment market saw steady 2 per cent growth in 2018. However, this doesn’t fully reflect the structural changes in the wider video landscape, according to the latest Video Insights report from Futuresource Consulting. Home video spend (DVD, Blu-ray, EST, SVoD & TVoD) grew 20 per cent in 2018 to 10.3 billion pesos. […]
Research from Openwave Mobility has found that over the past five years, video on mobile networks has grown on average 50-60 per cent year-on-year (YoY), while in many developing markets, the rate is more than twice this. The findings are part of the latest Mobile Video Index (MVI), now in its third edition. Along with […]
5G is on track to account for 15 per cent of global mobile connections by 2025, as the number of 5G network launches and compatible devices ramps up in 2019, according to a new report from the GSMA, the body that represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide. The 2019 global edition of the GSMA’s […]