Canada’s digital TV subscriber base to reach 5.8 million by end of 2006: Decima
News | 04/22/2005 4:00 am EDT
| Canada’s digital TV subscriber base will outnumber analog subscribers sometime in 2006 as the digital rollout accelerates to reach about 5.8 million by the end of next year, forecasts a Decima Research report released last month. The quicker uptake in digital TV was evident in 2004, according to figures in THE DIGITAL DOMAIN: Tracking the Growth and Development of the Canadian Digital TV Distribution Market, Vol. 4, Report 3, which covers the quarter ending December 2004. Almost 120,000 more subscribers were added in 2004 than in 2003. About 536,000 digital TV subscribers were added in 2004 compared with about 419,000 in 2003.
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