Statistics concerning the evolution of the pay television services market in the first nine months of this year show that the total number of subscribers to pay television decreased by over 4,300 (-1.5%) to 282,100, while sales diminished by 2.4 million lei (-1.9%) to over 121.9 million lei, IPN reports.

According to the data of the National Energy Regulation Agency, at the end of the third quarter of this year, 75.1% of the users to pay television were subscribed to cable TV, 21.5% to IP TV, 6% to satellite TV, while 0.8% to the MMDS networks.

There are 87 pay television providers in Moldova. The largest of them hold the following market shares by turnover: SRL “Sun Communications” – 28.6%, SA “Moldtelecom” – 25.9%, SRL “AMT” – 4.2%, while SRL “Focus sat” – 3.9%. The other 83 providers hold together a market share of 37.4%.