Synopsis
Portugal has seen considerable development in the converged services market. Bundled services are available from Portugal Telecom, Sonaecom and the main cableco ZON Multimédia, sold by Portugal Telecom in late 2007. A second satellite service was launched in 2007 while Portugal Telecom also launched a competing service in 2008 to complement its IPTV service. The digital TV platform is scheduled to be completed during 2012. A licence for pay TV and free-to-air services was awarded to Portugal Telecom in 2008. This report assesses the major elements of the Portuguese market for converged media in 2011, presenting statistics on the cable, digital and satellite TV markets and an analysis of the major players and service offerings.
Key developments:
IPTV subscriber base approaches one million; quarter of households take bundles service; regulator’s 2010 market data and data update to Q2 2011; operator data to June 2011.
Companies covered include:
TMN, Optimus, Vodafone, ZON Multimedia.