China's 2012 Cable DTV User Base Reaches 140 Mln
Sina Tech, 3/20/13
Wang Xiaojie, director of the Chinese State Administration of Radio, Film and Television's (SARFT) Department of Science and Technology, said today that China had more than 140 digital cable subscriber households as of the end of 2012, or roughly 66% overall conversion to digital cable.
At present, China has a total of 214.59 mln cable subscriber households. 143.03 of these have converted to digital cable. 70 mln subscriber households are covered by bi-directional digital cable networks, and 19 mln subscriber households have signed up for bi-directional digital cable, as well as 5.64 mln cable broadband subscribers. By 2015, all urban cable networks at the county level or above are expected to complete digital conversion efforts, and 80% of networks are expected to have implemented bi-directional functionality.
Editor's Note: For more background on this topic, please see "China's Q1 2012 Cable DTV Users Reach 118 Mln" MD 6/14/12 issue.
Keywords: national statistics cable TV cable subscribers timetable Wang Xiaojie conversion television DTV SARFT cable broadband bi-directional Science and Technology Department
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