Asian pay-television market growth to slow

The growth rate will slow further to 10 per cent in the next five years and seven per cent from now until 2018. The 26.6 million new subscribers in the region is forecast to drop to below 24 million next year, with an average of 15-20 million new additions each year thereafter.

Annual revenues from pay-television and broadband will rise from $64 billion in 2008 to $102 billion by 2013 and $130 billion by 2018.

India will be the biggest pay-TV market from a revenue perspective, with $18 billion by 2018, followed by Japan with $10 billion, Korea and Australia with $4 billion each and Taiwan with $2 billion.