With bulked-up networks, they have poached millions of phone companies' subscribers with cheap voice-over-Internet Protocol plans and sell faster Internet lines than the telcos' digital subscriber line services.
Instead, movie studios are coming up with their own subscriber online content services, which they hope will stem mainstream interest in illegal downloading.
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Huang writes that subscriber growth with cable and satellite services is a key revenue and adjusted EBITDA driver for TiVo.
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An open platform spurs the creation of new services and applications, stimulating subscriber growth and so encouraging the birth of still more sites.
As the early adopters and streaming enthusiasts have already subscribed to these services, getting each incremental subscriber is going to be a slow and expensive task.
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Service providers pay for real-time TV services on a per-subscriber basis and for consumer purchases of a movie on-demand or a Pay-Per-View event via a transaction fee.
With a billion strong mobile subscriber base and growing demand for 3G services, China presents Nokia with a huge opportunity to create a smartphone niche for itself.
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For most of the past few years, cable companies were able to boost video revenues despite declining subscriber numbers by selling remaining video subscribers extra services like digital video recorders or premium channels.
The company is looking to modernize its network so as to add flexibility to add LTE services in the future and migrate iDEN subscriber base to CDMA network.
DirecTV will need to market multiple services and promote bundles overtime to establish more subscriber stability.
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The other piece of the equation, subscriber growth, is affected by the opportunities for substitute services offered to subscribers.
Despite these initiatives, the mobile carriers still lack the infrastructure necessary to deliver premium video services at a level of QoE that corresponds to the subscriber fees or service tier.
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At the same time, it is also a huge opportunity for the incumbent Chinese telecom providers such as China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom to tap their huge 2G subscriber base and drive the demand for the more lucrative 3G data services.
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At the same time, it is also a huge opportunity for the incumbent Chinese telecom providers such as China Unicom, China Telecom and, especially, China Mobile to tap their huge 2G subscriber base and drive the demand for the more lucrative 3G data services.
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Only around half of the country's cable systems have been upgraded to a standard high enough to carry all these services, and they are only just being rolled out, so subscriber numbers are still small.
Even though the industry has been hit hard by competition from satellite providers, new services are giving cable operators hope, promoting revenue growth and growing their subscriber base.
"The operating success of this year is based on sustainable and profitable subscriber growth, longer usage times and more revenues in advertising, e-commerce and services, " the company said in a statement.
The streaming Blockbuster offering promises to add some fresh life the company as it looks to tap into the growing demand for streaming services that has carried Netflix while providing additional options for subscribers in an effort to reverse recent subscriber losses.
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If the iPhone 5 offers global LTE frequencies then this will expand LTE subscriber growth and boost the fortunes of carriers with LTE networks to the detriment of those that only offer 3G services.
We expect that future international services are likely to be streaming-only which will aide growth in the number of videos streamed per subscriber.
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