The Latvian incumbent telco Lattelecom ended 2009 with 55,000 pay-TV subscribers.
Of these, 43,000 received its IPTV service Lattelecom Interactive TV and the remainder any of the pay DTT packages the telco now offers.
TeliaSonera-backed Lattelecom claims to be the fastest growing provider of digital TV services in Latvia. Its DTT platform was launched last year and includes a free element consisting of LTV1, LTV7 and LNT nationally and TV5 in the capital, Riga, and environs.