Booz Allen: Digital TV on the verge of a breakthrough?
By 2010, around 60% of European European households will have digital TV (DTV).
The market for digital offerings in Europe
is on the verge of a breakthrough in 2006. By 2010, around 60% of the
European households have digital TV (DTV). DTV therefore replaces
Broadband Internet as the main driver of European digitization
off. As a result, cumulative investments by industry in the amount of
around 100 billion euros and the creation of 100,000 new jobs.
new jobs. This is shown by a Europe-wide study by the
international strategy and technology consultancy Booze Allen Hamilton.
Cable TV providers have already been offering Internet services and
telephony, more and more companies are now also pushing
telecommunications providers into the television market. The latter are
However, according to the study, they are in a privileged starting position. Depending on
country, the revenues of telecommunications providers are around the
at least seven times higher than the total sales of the
cable industry in these countries. In Europe we have
telecommunications provider has around 151 million customers. In comparison
Cable network operators are far behind with 51 million. A
functioning competition requires cable TV providers to offer the
reach the size required in the convergence market (Internet,
telephony and TV) a counterweight to the telecommunications providers
forms. In the long term, only the company that offers the consumer
first access to all three services from a single source for good
conditions, Booze Allen predicts.
is on the verge of a breakthrough in 2006. By 2010, around 60% of the
European households have digital TV (DTV). DTV therefore replaces
Broadband Internet as the main driver of European digitization
off. As a result, cumulative investments by industry in the amount of
around 100 billion euros and the creation of 100,000 new jobs.
new jobs. This is shown by a Europe-wide study by the
international strategy and technology consultancy Booze Allen Hamilton.
Cable TV providers have already been offering Internet services and
telephony, more and more companies are now also pushing
telecommunications providers into the television market. The latter are
However, according to the study, they are in a privileged starting position. Depending on
country, the revenues of telecommunications providers are around the
at least seven times higher than the total sales of the
cable industry in these countries. In Europe we have
telecommunications provider has around 151 million customers. In comparison
Cable network operators are far behind with 51 million. A
functioning competition requires cable TV providers to offer the
reach the size required in the convergence market (Internet,
telephony and TV) a counterweight to the telecommunications providers
forms. In the long term, only the company that offers the consumer
first access to all three services from a single source for good
conditions, Booze Allen predicts.
