Report: IPTV to Erode Cable TV Share

CAMBRIDGE,
November 6: Growth in the IPTV pay-TV market will come at the expense of cable
TV operators, according to Pyramid Research, which predicts IPTV's share of the
market will rise to 14 percent in 2013 from 3 percent today.

Cable
TV's share of the pay-TV market, meanwhile, is expected to fall to 61 percent
from 76 percent in the same time period.

"IPTV
operators continue to make strong strides in gaining pay-TV market share,"
said Ozgur Aytar, the senior research manager for broadband and media.
"Pyramid Research estimates that IPTV will drive a global total of 9
million net subscriber additions in 2008, 40 percent of which will come from
markets in the Asia-Pacific region."

—By
Mansha Daswani