There will be 1.4 million European households with digital terrestrial TV by the year 2002 with satellite broadcasters set to control around 65% of the digital market according to new estimates from analysts Datamonitor. The company predicts France will lead the way in the terrestrial market with around 640,000 digital terrestrial boxes by 2002, closely followed by the UK with 606,000. The research suggests that the take up of digital terrestrial services will be slowed not by the more limited range of channels compared to digital cable and satellite services, but rather because consumers associate it with existing free-to-air television.
