Middle East and North Africa


Pay TV booms in the Middle East

Pay TV revenues and subscriber numbers rose sharply across the Middle East and North Africa last year, according to new research. IHS says that region-wide revenues increased to €873 million (US$946.2 million) in 2014 from €702 million in 2013. Pay TV subscribers increased 12.4% year-on-year, taking the end-2014 total to 4.8 million. IHS said that […]

MENA pay TV to top 21 million

The number of pay TV homes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) will reach 21.3 million in 2020, doubling over the ten-year period from 2010 to 2020, according to new research. The Digital TV Research report claims that 18% of TV households in the MENA region legitimately paid for TV signals by the […]