Indian pay TV operators making their mark globally: researcher SNL Kagan

Even though the real benefit of digitalization of Cable TV industry are yet to accrue to subscribers and most of the stake holders some of the operators have definitely  managed to raise their value manyfolds in the According to the SNL Kagan report released recently, DishTV with 14.7 milllion subscribers is the largest pay TV operator (fourth placed in the Asia-Pac rankings), Den Networks wih 11.2 million subs, Siti Cable with 10.5 million subs and Tata Sky with 10.2 million subs are at the No 8, 9, and 10 positions. Chinese operator Jiangsu Broadcasting with 20.9 million subs leads the Asia Pac table, while China Telecom with 19.9 million subs is at No 2.

The researcher says that Videocon d2H leads the Indian pay TV operator pecking order if one looks at net subscriber additions with its number of 2.3 million. Dish TV is also doing well with 2.2 million net new subscriber adds. While Tata Sky follows with 1.98 million new additions.

India's BSNL with 9.9 million broadband subsribers and Bharati Airtel with 1.38 million are the only Indian firms featuring in the broadband table.

On the whole, SNL Kagan has crowned US cable TV service provider Comcast, as the world's largest pay-TV provider last year with nearly 22 million subscribers. However the next two are not far behind. China's Jiangsu Broadcasting has 20.9 million and DirecTV has 20.1 million.

China Telecom was the top fixed broadband provider, reaching 90.1 million high-speed Internet customers. India, China and the US accounted for 50 or nearly half of the 106 top pay-TV operators, with 27 companies based in China and 12 in India. The US is third with 11 operators, followed by France, Germany, South Korea, Brazil and Mexico, each with five.   

In Asia, of the top 10 platforms by subscriber number, six were in China and the rest are in India led by Dish TV.

Comcast is still the number one broadband provider in the US, with about 19.4 million subscribers ahead of AT&T with 16.4 million and Time Warner Cable with 11.4 million subscribers.

Source: http://cablequest.org/news/national-news/item/2560-indian-pay-tv-operators-making-their-mark-globally-researcher-snl-kagan.html
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