Tuesday 9 January 2018

Four of top 10 pay-TV services are from India: Report

According to Informitv Multiscreen Index of 100 leading multichannel pay television services around the world, India now accounts for four of the top 10 services in the index by subscriber numbers and seven out of the top 10 in the Asia Pacific region.


The report added that the pay-TV operators in India also made up six of the ten services worldwide with the greatest subscriber gains in the last quarter.

The report stated that the top 100 pay-TV service on the index collectively gained 3.70 million subscribers in the third quarter of 2017. The January 2018 report shows that India is a major growth market, which will produce the largest single service in the index worldwide, ranked by subscriber numbers.

DTH players Dish TV and Videocon d2h combine with 29.15 million subscribers will have a scale similar to leading global cable and satellite players in terms of subscribers.

Internationally, Comcast in the United States is currently the largest single service in the Multiscreen Index, with 21.34 million subscribers. AT&T has 20.61 million DIRECTV subscribers and 3.69 million U-verse customers, plus 720,000 DIRECTV NOW online accounts. As a group, AT&T has 38.51 million television subscribers, including SKY Brazil and PanAmericana.

China is excluded from the survey because of the lack of verifiable published data.

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