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Article: Digital cable market in Europe slows: by 2006 there will be 16m digital cable homes.(Focus)
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- Screen Digest
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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* There are 3.9m digital cable homes in Europe, or 6.6 per cent of total cable homes
* But net digital cable additions has fallen from 1.5m in 2001 to 0.66m in 2002
* UK is the largest market with 53 per cent of all digital cable homes in Europe
* Growth in the UK has slowed heavily; from 1.1m net adds to just 0.11m in 2002
* France and in particular Germany will be main growth areas over next four years
* We forecast 15.9m digital cable homes in 2006; 25 per cent of total cable homes
Just 660,000 digital cable subscribers were added to the European total in 2002, well down from the 1.5m subscribers added during the ...