IPTV Subscribers To Increase eight-fold to 48.8 Million by 2010
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The number of households around the world subscribing to Internet Protocol television (IPTV) services offered by telecom carriers will reach 48.8 million in 2010, an eight-fold increase in users between 2006 and 2010, according to Gartner, Inc. Buoyed by new service launches, IPTV subscribers will more than double in 2007 from an expected 6.4 million in 2006 to 13.3 million. The global picture for IPTV revenue is much less impressive than for subscriber numbers, as the Global IPTV revenue during the period will grow from $872 million in 2006 to a still relatively modest $13.2 billion by 2010. |
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Gartner defines IPTV as the delivery of video programming (either broadcast or on-demand) over a carrier’s managed broadband network to a customer’s TV set. It does not include streaming media over the Internet to a PC. |
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North America is forecast to have one of the highest IPTV growth rates in
the next five years, with subscribers doubling nearly every year to 2010.
Although currently behind Europe and Asia/Pacific, the next 12 months
should produce the main inflection point in the growth of IPTV in North
America as the major players launch new TV services.
Western Europe currently has the largest number of IPTV subscribers of any region with 1.6 million subscribers. France leads in adoption for the region and will end 2006 with approximately half of Western Europe’s IPTV subscribers. Gartner attributes IPTV’s success in France to an aggressive (low entry price) push from competitive players including Free and Neuf as well as France Telecom’s early embrace of IPTV. |
