The number of subscribers connected to pay TV services and the total volume of sales on this market segment in the first quarter of this year rose by 1,500 or 0.5%, totaling 331,200 and, respectively, by 2.7 million lei or 7% to 41.4 million lei compared with the corresponding period last year, the national ICT regulator ANRCETI has said, being quoted by IPN.

Following such developments, the monthly average revenue per user of the operators working on this segment grew by 5.6% to 41.8 lei.

Of all the subscribers, over 167,000 are connected through coaxial cable networks. The figure is by 2,700 lower than in 2018. Over 163,000 subscribers are connected through IPTV networks, up 4,200, while 457 use the MMDS technology.

The same data show 64.2% of the subscribers received the TV signal in a digital format, while 35.8% in an analog format. Consequently, the pay TV penetration rate per 100 people over three months rose by 0.1 percentage points to 9.3%.