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Anacom: Around 89% of pay-TV subscribers are residential
Data from Anacom
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Anacom: Around 89% of pay-TV subscribers are residential
At the end of the second quarter of 2024 (Q2 2024), there were 4.6 million subscribers to pay-TV services, an increase of 86,000 compared with the same quarter of the previous year. The growth rate of subscribers to this service slowed, recording the lowest annual growth (+1.9%) since the end of 2013.
In the residential segment, PTV penetration reached 96 per 100 households.
The vast majority of PTV subscribers subscribed to this service as part of a bundle. In Q2 2024, only 1.9% of PTV connections were sold as single-play.
At the end of Q2 2024, fibre-optic (FTTH/B) accounted for 65.2% of total subscribers, followed by cable TV (26.3%), satellite TV – DTH (6.8%) and ADSL (1.7%).
FTTH was also solely responsible for the growth in PTV’s subscriber numbers, with this technology reaching 3 million subscribers this quarter, 179,000 more than in the same quarter last year (+6.3%). This growth was due not only to new customers, but also to the migration of customers previously served by other networks to FTTH/B. However, this was the lowest annual growth since the introduction of this technology (in 2007).
At the end of Q2 2024, there were 4.1 million residential subscribers to PTV’s distribution service, an increase of 65,000 (+1.6%) compared with the same quarter of the previous year, representing 88.6% of total subscribers.
In the non-residential segment, there were 527,000 subscribers, representing 11.4% of total subscribers, an increase of 4.1% compared with the same period last year.
At the end of Q2 2024, MEO was the provider with the largest share of PTV distribution service subscribers (41.8%), followed by the NOS Group (36.2%), Vodafone (19.3%) and NOWO (2.7%). MEO and Vodafone were the providers that gained the most subscribers, in net terms, compared to the same quarter last year, with their market shares increasing by 0.4 p.p. and 0.3 p.p., respectively. On the other hand, the market shares of the NOS Group (-0.5%) and NOWO (-0.2%) fell.
In the residential segment, MEO and the NOS Group held the highest market shares (40.1% and 37.4%, respectively), whilst in the non-residential segment, MEO held more than half of the subscribers (54.7%).