APAC pay-TV market up by 7% in the year ended March 2015

The pay-TV market is booming across the Asia Pacific region with the addition of 36.74 million subscribers (7.3% growth) in the 12 months to end-March, 2015, according to the latest research from Dataxis.

End 1Q15 there were 537.6 million pay-TV subs across the region, with IPTV growing 21.3% to 56.75 million, followed by DTH with 16.2% growth to 78.93 million, cable television up 4% to 396.58 million, while pay-DTT subscriptions rose just 0.2% to 3.85 million. Although the overall cable growth was minimal, digital cable was up 12.2% to 260.81 million, while analog fell from 147.57 million in 1Q14 to 134.95 million in 1Q15.http://nextvasia.com/1-cable-dth/apac-pay-tv-market-up-by-7-in-12-months-ended-march-2015/?utm_campaign=NexTV+Latam+daily+Newsletter&utm_content=APAC+pay-TV+market+up+by+7%25+in+the+year+ended+%28nextvasia%29&utm_medium=email&utm_source=getresponse