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Analysts Expect Healthy Increase in U.K. Pay-TV Revenues

[Satellite TODAY 09-18-09] Pay-TV revenues in the United Kingdom are set to increase from $6.2 billion in 2009 to $8.2 billion in 2014, according to report issued by Pyramid Research, released Sept. 17.
    Pyramid expects IPTV to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 26 percent within the forecast period.
    Andrei Tchadliev, analyst at Pyramid Research and author of the report, expects significant increases in interest for triple play packages in the United Kingdom. “We believe that by 2013, triple-play services, namely fixed voice, broadband and pay-TV, will overtake double play. It is estimated that in 2009, close to 19.4 million households will have signed up for triple-play services, largely on account of the value the offer over stand-alone Internet, voice, mobile and pay-TV packages,” he said in the report.