Tempo Interactive, Wednesday, 02 December, 2009 | 22:16 WIB
TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: An association of subscription-based multimedia service reported increasing subscribers during 2009 by around 27 percent and predicted the percentage will continue to rise to about 30 percent in 2010.
Association of National Multimedia Service said pay TV subscribers have been estimated at 900,000 this year by the end of the year, growing by almost 200,000 subscribers from a year earlier.
Secretary General of the association Arya Mahendra Sinulingga said his association predicted a rise in number of subscribers that would take the number of customers to 1.2 – 1.3 million next year.
There were already several pay TV services in Indonesia which include Indovision, Telkomvision, Firstmedia, IM2, Aora, Fastindo, Megavision, Jogja Medianet, and Okevision, but Arya said “Right now pay TV subscribers only make up of 8 or 9 percent (of the total TV viewers).”
Most subcribers according to Arya will return to pay TV for more channels and variety of shows they could not find in regular TV, but the limited number of local movies Arya said could not respond to that demand. HBO channel for example could air 800 titles a year while Indonesia only produces 75 titles a year.
KARTIKA CHANDRA
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