50 Percent of European Homes Receive Digital TV

Over 47 million homes now receive digital satellite signals

50 percent or 122 million out of the 243 million TV homes in Europe receive programs digitally at the end of  2008. Overall, satellite – including other operators – has again proven to be a main driver of digitalization, providing more than a quarter of all TV households or 52 percent of all digital households with digital TV signals. The digitalization rate of satellite, as an infrastructure, is three times higher (89 percent) than that of cable networks (27 percent). This were the finding of the annual Satellite Monitor report commission by SES ASTRA.

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