This fact supposes an increase of 2 % as regards ends of last year and contrasts with 1,8 million clients to the television of payment with whom the Lusitanian country is provided at present

At the end of last March, Portugal had a whole of 1.881.000 clients subscribed to the different services of the television of payment, there being calculated those who it are of the networks of cable and the same as by means of satellite. This number supposes a penetration of 18 %.

According to the national regulator of telecommunications Anacom, the services of television of payment distributed by the networks of cable had 1,4 million subscribers, slightly more than 2,1 % with regard to ends of 2006.

The north of Portugal was the one that registered the highest growth of subscribers of the cable television with 3,1 %.

In what atañe to the clients of the satellite platform TV End, on March 31, 2007 this one was reaching the 444.000, a growth of 13,7 % as regards the first trimester of 2006 and 2 % more than at the end of 2006.

This information demonstrates once again the important link and acceptance that have the cable networks in Portugal with regard to the satellite television, something very different from what happens for example in Spain.


(22/05/07)