India’s Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRAI) has released its official DTH subscriber numbers for 2016 and they confirm earlier reports that growth is slowing. However, the overall numbers are still substantial. TRAI says that 2016’s core DTH subscriber base grew from 84.8 million (end of 2015) to 97.05 million (December 31st 2016), an increase of 14.45 […]
A report from Juniper Research has found that 5G operator-billed service revenues will reach $269 billion by 2025, rising from $851 million in 2019 – achieving 161 per cent CAGR (compound annual growth rate) over the first 7 years of 5G services. Juniper’s research is based on the latest market data and takes into account […]
The Digital Production Partnership (DPP) has published the findings from its latest event, Home Truths: Building the New Supply Chain. Part of the DPP AT HOME series, this special event, enabled by systems architect Qvest Media, brought together industry experts to look at how consumer demand is impacting the way in which content is made […]
The 100 leading television services in the informitv Multiscreen Index gained 3.46 million subscribers between them in the first quarter of 2017, an increase of 0.79 per cent. In the same period in 2016 the increase was 6.90 million, or 1.68 per cent. • There were modest gains across the board, with the Americas up by 0.85 million, Europe, Middle East and Africa up […]
The digitisation of content and networks is resulting in rapid and profound changes in audiovisual consumption patterns, characterised by a disaffection for linear programming, rapid adoption of streaming and on-demand consumption, the arrival of new players and internationalisation of content and services. One of the only certainties in this restructuring and still unstable market is […]
Service providers and content owners from the APAC region participating in the Pay-TV Innovation Forum 2017 have agreed that the pay-TV industry in the region is entering a transitional period during which operators will need to adapt their business models and technology platforms in order to thrive in the changing environment. The Forum is a […]
According to a quarterly update of Dataxis’s global database, Latin America and the Caribbean reached 72.6 million pay-TV legal subscribers for the first quarter of 2017. The figure shows a growth of 0.2 per cent compared to the previous quarter and the region adds four consecutive quarters with growth rates below 1 per cent. DTH […]
A key meeting of government officials, political leaders, industry regulators, business heads and international and local experts in Taipei has called for removal of investment constraints in the multichannel video industry, and increased attention to online piracy, as the Taiwan market reshapes itself as an all-digital (and often mobile) regional communications hub. Participants in the […]
Research from the Teligen division of market intelligence firm Strategy Analytics comparing pay-TV service prices as of May 2017, covering 31 of the OECD countries, suggests that the average price of the cheapest basic Pay TV package tracked is declining by -1.3 per cent vs. November 2016. According to Strategy Analytics, this price decline is […]
HD subscribers continues to grow significantly into the pay-TV market in Latin America. Following research conducted by Dataxis, the penetration rate of HD over the total pay-TV subscribers reached 37.5 per cent. The last update for the first quarter of 2017 estimates a penetration of 39.2 per cent, confirming a net progression. Dataxis forecasts that […]