China is the leading market in the world...
China is the leading market in the world for IPTV, with Chinese telecoms serving 30 percent of the world’s IPTV subscriber base, said SNL Kagan in a release Thursday (http://bit.ly/KEAg48). “IPTV is the fastest-growing pay TV platform from a global…
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perspective,” said SNL Kagan analyst Julija Jurkevic. She said the growth in Europe and Asia is driven by “accelerated rollouts of next generation broadband networks.” The release said the top 20 IPTV operators have more than 57 million subscribers, with more than 28 million of them in Asia and 17 million in Western Europe. Seven of the top 20 IPTV companies are based in Asia, and nine in Western Europe. Four of those are in France, which SNL Kagan named the second-largest IPTV market after China. The release said Microsoft Mediaroom is “the world’s most deployed IPTV platform,” with 16 percent of global subscribers at the end of 2012.