Cable Congress 2018 Industry Figures - Cable Europe

Cable Congress 2018 Industry Figures Data provided by IHS Markit

2017 Revenue Growth: 2.4% Total revenues €23.43 billion – a decade of solid year-on-year growth, with €553 million in revenue added in 2017

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Source: IHS – EU28

Cable growth driven by broadband 

Cable is reducing its reliance on TV, with DOCSIS 3.0’s success boosting growth in broadband. Revenue growth in %

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Continued strength of broadband 

Broadband subscribers grow 4.6% or an additional 1.6 million subscriptions, and revenues up 5%

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Digital TV boosting revenue growth 

2.1% growth or € 220 million increase in total cable TV revenues driven by growth across digital subscriptions and VOD

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3/4 TV subscribers now Digital 

74.7% of cable TV subscribers in Europe are digital

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And these subscribers already generate almost 85% of cable TV revenues


Over 120mn European RGUs 

121.4 million Revenue Generating Units or 2.4 million RGUs added

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More European households use cable as their primary mode of reception than any other distribution technology.

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Annex 1 – Cable Revenues 2017:

2017

2016

Total Cable revenue

+2.42%

€23.43bn

€22.87bn

Broadband

+4.97%

€8.6bn

€7.68bn

Telephony

-1.02%

€4.61bn

€4.66bn

TV

+2.08%

€10.75bn

€10.53bn

Analogue subscription TV revenue

-21.86%

€1.73bn

€2.22bn

Digital subscription revenue

+7.98%

€8.56bn

€7.92bn

+18.47%

€461mn

€389mn

On-demand revenue

83.9% of TV revenues are digital

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Source: IHS Markit – EU28, YE 2017

Annex 2 – Cable Subscribers 2017:

2017

2016

EU Unique Cable Homes

+0.85%

65.6mn

65.1mn

Total RGUs

+2.02%

121.4mn

119mn

Broadband

+4.57%

37.3mn

35.7mn

Telephony

+2.99%

28.6mn

27.8mn

TV

-0.10%

55.5mn

55.6mn

+13.07

41.5mn

36.7mn

-25.68%

14mn

18.9mn

Digital TV Analogue TV

74.7% of TV subscribers are now digital

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Source: IHS Markit – EU28, YE 2017