Point Topic is reporting its research showing that worldwide IPTV subscriber growth rate has recovered in Q4 2015 compared to Q3 2015, and was the highest in the last eight quarters ending December 2015. Numbers grew to a large extent due to obvious areas such as China, which saw 3.7 million new IPTV subscribers sign up in Q4 2015, according to the research firm.
Point Topic says the high quarterly growth of the global IPTV customer base has again increased the proportion of fixed broadband subscribers who also take an IPTV service, generally from their broadband operator. IPTV subscribers reportedly continue to grow faster than fixed broadband in percentage terms. “Focus on the newly acquired satellite TV services meant that the U.S. service provider AT&T saw its IPTV subscribers decline further, by 4.1% quarter on quarter,” the research firm says. “Nevertheless, countries such as Spain, Brazil and Turkey recorded quarterly growth in double digits.”
Probably not a surprise, but East Asia continues at the top of the regional ratings, consistently with more net adds and higher growth rates than anywhere else. In addition, quarterly growth rates have gone up in all regions except North America, where the change in technology focus of such large providers as AT&T had a significant impact, according to the research.
