The incomes earned from the sale of pay television services in the first half of this year increased against a slight decrease in the number of subscribers to pay television. Over half a year, the sales of such services rose by 3.1 million lei (+3.8%) to about 85.4 million lei, while the number of subscribers fell by 0.2% to 286,000, IPN reports, quoting the ICT regulator ANRCETI.
According to the situation on August 1 this year, 49.6% of the 286,000 subscribers to pay television used cable TV networks, 43.3% - IP TV networks, 5.3% - satellite networks, while 1.7% - MMDS networks.
There were 91 providers of pay television services in the period. The slight rise in incomes was determined mainly by the increase in the volume of sales of providers operating IP TV networks.
The average monthly revenue per user (ARPU) of the pay TV providers rose by 2.5% to 50 lei. Only one provider of IP TV - SA “Moldtelecom” - exceeded this indicator. It reported an ARPU of 67 lei.
At the end of June, the market shares of the largest providers by turnover were as follows: SRL “Sun Communications” – 27.7%, SA “Moldtelecom” – 24.4%, SRL “AMT” – 4.3%, while SRL “Focus sat” – 3.9%. The other providers had together a market share of 39.8%.
