United Kingdom - Over 9.7 million DTT households

According to the latest figures published by Ofcom, over 9.7 million households rely on the DTT platform for their primary television services, making it the largest television platform in the UK.

During the third quarter of 2008, at total of 2.5 million DTT receivers were sold which is 4% more than the corresponding quarter in 2007.

Of these, iDTVs comprised 1.6 million receivers while 900,000 were DTT set-top boxes. Over the past year, more than 11.8 million DTT receivers have been sold.

Source: Ofcom announcement