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By 2024, Africa will have 46 million homes subscribed to pay television

According to a study by Digital TV Research, Africa will add more than 16 million pay television subscribers between 2018 and 2024, which would bring its total to 45.63 million.

Sede Multichoice

Digital TV Research foresees in his report Sub-Saharan Africa Pay TV Forecasts that the number Africa adds more than 16 million subscribers to pay television between 2018 and 2024, which will bring its total to 45.63 million.

Simon Murray, principal analyst at Digital TV Research, assures that "the number of subscribers will grow by 61% in this period, but pay TV revenue will only increase by 42%, indicating a lower ARPU. Pay TV revenue will reach $7.72 billion in 2024, which represents an increase of $2.3 billion compared to 2018."

In 2018, three groups accounted for 93% of pay-TV subscribers in sub-Saharan Africa, although this proportion will fall to 89% in 2024.

Multichoice It had 14.34 million subscribers on the DStv satellite television platform and the GOtv digital terrestrial television platform at the end of 2018. This total will grow by 5 million to reach 19.37 million in 2024, according to estimates by Digital Tv Research.

For its part, the French Vivendi It had 4.01 million subscribers to its Canal Plus satellite television platform and the Easy TV digital terrestrial television platform at the end of 2018, which will rise to 6.21 million in 2024.

StarTimes/StarSat will enjoy the most impressive growth: from 7.75 million subs at the end of 2018 it would increase to 14.85 million in 2024, which represents an increase from 54% of Multichoice's total to 77% of its total by 2024.

Sub-Saharan Africa Pay TV Forecasts (Fuente: Digital TV Research)

By, 8 Jan, 2019, Section:Business, Television

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