CATV
CATV (cable TV) penetration in Germany
total households: 37.4 Mio.
connectable: 23.76 Mio.
connected: 15.27 Mio.
year Q passed connected
1992 1 17.9 10.4
1992 2 18.4 10.8
1992 3 18.9 11.3
1993 0 19.6 11.8
1993 1 19.9 12.3
1993 2 20.3 12.8
1993 3 20.7 13.1
1994 0 21.5 13.5
1994 1 21.8 13.9
1994 2 22.1 14.2
1994 3 22.4 14.5
1995 0 23.2 14.7
1995 1 23.5 15.0
1995 2 23.8 15.3 (64.3%)
1995 3
passed: Hamburg: 99.4%, Bremen: 97.7%;
connected: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 71.6%, Berlin: 70.5%
[Telekom media report, August 1995]
CATV in the US
Business Week,
10/14/96
- $25b annual revenue, $15.7b (1993) [C]
- 67% of households
- 2/3 of 95 mio. cable-ready homes -> $33/household
- DirecTV: 175 channels
- DBS: 5 mio. households
- 9,610 systems (1993)
- costs between $600 and $1200 per subscriber to build
- 35 channels to 50,000 subscribers
- avg. annual revenue: $312 (1988)
- avg. annual cash flow (after operating expenses, before
amortization): $150
- only 170,000 miles of fiber
1995-1996 cable
TV facts (Canada)
European CATV specs
- 47 - 300 MHz (35 PAL channels, 30 FM channels)
- hyperband: 300-450 MHz or 606 MHz (newer) = 17 PAL channels
- install feedback at 4 - 28.75 (2 TV channels)
- if return channel from 4 - 9.6 MHz: 38 Mb/s with 64QAM, 51
Mb/s with 256 QAM
- 20,000 users per feed.