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Pay TV in Portugal: what’s the reality?
Almost all of us have a pay-TV service in Portugal.
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MEO was the operator with the largest share of television distribution service subscribers.
The overwhelming majority of households had a pay-TV service (97.8%) in the third quarter of 2023. The growth in the service was driven by fibre-optic-based offerings (FTTH/B), which reached 2.9 million subscribers and recorded an increase of 212,000 subscribers compared with the same quarter of the previous year (+7.9%). This growth resulted not only from the acquisition of new customers, but also from the migration to FTTH/B of customers who were previously on other networks (copper and coaxial).
The number of fibre-optic subscribers recorded the lowest annual growth (+7.9%) since the emergence of this technology (2007). Since 2018, FTTH/B has been the main form of access to this service. At the end of the third quarter of 2023, FTTH/B accounted for 63.2% of total subscribers, followed by coaxial cable TV (27.3%), satellite TV – DTH (7.3%) and copper via ADSL (2.3%).
At the end of the third quarter of 2023, the number of residential subscribers to the television distribution service reached 4 million, an increase of 78,000 (+2%) compared with the same quarter of the previous year, and accounted for 88.7% of total subscribers.
As regards operators, MEO was the operator with the highest share of distribution service subscribers (41.4%), followed by the NOS Group (36.5%), Vodafone (19.1%) and NOWO (2.8%).
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