Some 1,300 ISPs are providing TV services illegally to 100,000 homes in the Czech Republic, according to Zdenek Vanicek, the president of the Czech Association of Electronic Communications (CAEK).
He added that illegal competition from ISPs is one of the “hot topics” currently facing the Czech industry, with the others including post-analogue must carry rules, copyright and collecting societies and lack of European support and cooperation.
Looking at the Czech TV services distribution market, Vanicek said that there are currently around 750,000 pay-TV households in the cable sector, of which 200,000 are analogue.
There are also 750,000 pay-TV homes in the DTH sector, while the IPTV pay-TV sector serves 220,000 homes.
All told, over 1,700,000 of the country’s 4,600,000 homes receive some form of pay-TV service.