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| Cable Industry: CASBAA Report |
| Posted by : News.Desk |
 CASBAA Report: Pay-TV Piracy to Top $1.5 Billion for 2007 representing a 26-percent increase in lost revenues - an estimated $300 million.
HONG KONG, October 31: In the latest survey of revenue leakage over the last 12 months to the regional pay-TV industry, conducted by the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) and Standard Chartered Bank, the losses are conservatively estimated to stand at US$1.54 billion, as compared to US$1.13 billion in 2006. The latest figures mark yet another increase - up from $1.1 billion in 2005.
The CASBAA Report noted that there has been a disturbing growth of an emerging and important phenomenon, that of illegal Internet-based card-sharing (via remote servers) for Direct to Home (DTH) services.
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India |
$985 million in net losses in 2007, an increase of 44 percent over 2006. |
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Thailand |
$180 million, the second largest dollar loss in the region |
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Pakistan |
$110 million. Estimates show that there were 4.6 million pirated cable-TV subscriptions in Pakistan, with some 345,000 legitimate subscriptions |
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Hong Kong |
$27.4 million |
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| American Cable Industry: Cable theft costly |
| Posted by : News.Desk |
Free cable seems like a bargain. After all, who wouldn't want programs such as "Sex in the City," "The Sopranos" or Showtime special events without paying for them? But industry officials say cable companies are losing billions of dollars and municipalities millions of dollars each year to cable theft. That loss, officials say, is affecting city budgets and causing cable bills to rise. |
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| Canadian Cable Industry: Survey: Theft of domestic cable a crisis |
| Posted by : News.Desk |
TORONTO (CP) - Stealing domestic cable TV signals represents a $400-million-a-year loss in revenues and proves that such theft isn't just a satellite issue, says a study conducted for the Bell ExpressVu home satellite carrier. The study released Monday indicates that, after a brief and tenuous interlude of co-operation to combat TV piracy, Canadian cable and satellite services are at loggerheads again over which technology has the worst theft problem. "This study directly contradicts the assertion by cable companies and their industry association that signal theft is only a satellite problem," ExpressVu president Timothy McGee said Monday. "Clearly that's not the case." But the cable companies disagreed.
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