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Article: Growth in euro digital cable slows in 2002: UK accounts for more than half of total. (Focus).
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- Screen Digest
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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* Digital cable market in Europe more than doubled in 2001 to 3.6m subscribers
* By the end of 2001, digital accounted for some 7.4 per cent of cable homes
* Growth in top two markets--UK and France--has slowed considerably since then
* UK accounted for over 50 per cent of all digital cable subs in Europe in 2001
* Very rapid growth continues in the Israeli market throughout both 2001 and 2002
* Outside of these three countries, digital cable has yet to reach mass market
There were 3.6m digital cable subscribers in Europe at the end of 2001--more than twice as many as there were at the end of the previous year. ...