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Satellite or Cable Television
Bell Online TV Provider Canada is the largest provider of television programming services in Canada according to the company financial results. Now, the satellite and cable television giant delivers television programming to more than 3 million Canadian households consisting of around 2 million cable subscribers and only 900,000 Direct to Home (DTH) satellite television subscribers.
Bell TV Service Provider Canada Cable is Canada's famous cable TV distributor with more than 2 million basic subscribers followed. Bell Online TV Provider Canada is the largest non-cable TV distributor with around 1 million subscribers.
In Canada, the five largest cable and satellite providers combined for over 9 million subscribers. Following is the list of total number of subscribers for the five big television providers:
Bell TV: 1,900,000
Shaw: 3,200,000
Videotron: 1,760,000
Rogers: 2,300,000
Cogeco: 864,000
Digital TV
After removing analog cable subscribers, Bell is now top Digital television provider in Canada with more than two million subscribers consisting of 1,000,000 Bell digital cable subscribers and 900,000 Bell Direct customers.
Bell TV 1,924,000
Shaw 2,198,625
Rogers 1,585,000
Cogeco 498,398
Videotron 1,042,400
The motive of Bell TV Service Provider Canada cable company is to increase the average revenue per subscriber by offering them more feature laden as well as more expensive digital cable services. In order to measure how effective each of the major cable organizations has been in converting lower paying analog customers into higher paying digital cable customers, Digital Home has calculated what percentage of each of the big four cable companies subscribers are subscribing to digital cable now.
The numbers show that Rogers has been very successful in upgrading customers to higher priced Digital Cable services whereas Shaw Cable has been the least successful. Rogers has about 2,500 more basic cable subscribers than Shaw but has over 287,000 more digital cable subscribers.
Rogers 69.3%
Shaw 56.7%
Videotron 59.2%
Cogeco 57.6%
61.4% combined of the big four cable basic customers subscribe to digital cable now.
Internet Protocol television (IPTV) Providers
Internet Protocol television (IPTV) is the telecommunications answer to cable television. It use your residence's telephone line to deliver video content and television services to your TV set using a set-top box and delivering picture quality at least equivalent to existing pay-TV or free-to-air services. Video content can be broadcast-style pay-TV, video on demand (VOD) or any other video interactive services.
