HOT and yes duopoly in Israel

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HOT and yes duopoly in Israel

2011-02-04 11:29:34 / Anita Dabek
Last updated: 2011-02-04 3:29:02 p.m.
Source: Broadband TV News
In Israel there is growing competition in the pay TV sector, where it operates effectively a duopoly created by the cable operator HOT and satellite platform yes . Haaretz website reports that the Inter-Task Team, known as DTT in the last few months wondering how to break the dominance of HOT and yes. ARPU of both companies rose in the past few years, and in 2010 amounted to 208 new shekels (about 160 zł) per month for HOT and 230 new shekels (about 177 zł) per month for yes.



According to the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, the use of such services is currently one of the largest household expenditure in the country . There have been several unsuccessful attempts by the DTT team aimed at reducing the dominance of these two companies. Recently raised the fee for these two companies from 1 to 1.75% of revenue this year and to 2.5% in 2012, both of HOT, which now includes 60% of the pay TV market, and yes with the remaining 40%, strongly reject any changes proposed by the Task Force.