Dutch digital TV market grows to 6.76 million lines, 87.7% digital

Houten, The Netherlands, 02 September 2014 - The number of digital TV connections in the Netherlands grew by 0.8 percent during the second quarter of 2014 to 6.76 million on 30 June 2014. According to Telecompaper's latest quarterly Dutch Television Market report, digital TV was used by 87.7 percent of TV subscribers in the Netherlands, including 3.73 million cable subscribers who also have analogue TV connections.The total TV market grew to 7.71 million at the end of June 2014.

Cable still accounted for over half (55.2%) of digital TV subscribers in Q2, despite losing market share due to the growing adoption of IPTV services over DSL and fibre networks. DSL was the second most common way to receive TV, followed by satellite, fibre and terrestrial.

Ziggo was the largest TV provider at the end of the second quarter of 2014, both in the total TV market and the digital TV market. KPN, UPC and CanalDigitaal followed in the rankings.

“The digital TV market is expected to grow by around 3 percent during 2014 to almost 6.9 million connections at year-end,” said Telecompaper analyst and report author Kamiel Albrecht. “While growth is slowing somewhat at the cable operators, the DSL and fibre providers continue to increase their TV customer numbers.”

Telecompaper estimates that the retail revenues* for the consumer TV market totaled EUR 407 million in the second quarterof 2014, slightly higher than in Q1 2014. The revenues are expected to continue to grow at 0.3 percent CAGR until 2018.