The number of subscribers to pay television during a year rose by almost 5,000 (1.8%) to about 290,000. Sales on this market segment grew by 2 million lei (1.2%) to over 168 million, the national ICT regulator ANRCETI said, quoted by IPN.
As many as 95 providers worked on the pay television services market in 2013. The slight rise in revenues was due to the increase in the sales of providers operating IP TV networks. As a result, the monthly average revenue per user (ARPU) fell by 3.3% to almost 50 lei. Nearly all the providers working on this segment earned an ARPU lower than 50 lei. Only SA “Moldtelecom”, which provides IP TV services, reported an ARPU of 71 lei.
The most important market shares by turnover were held by SRL “Sun Communications” – 30%, SA “Moldtelecom” – 24%, SRL “Focus sat” – 5,5%, and SRL “AMT” – 4.5%. The other providers had together a market share of almost 36%.
