MUMBAI: Worldwide pay-TV subscriber households continued to grow in 2012, increasing at a healthy eight per cent annual clip according to a report from Multimedia Research Group.

Total pay-TV subscribers, consisting of cable TV, satellite TV, and IPTV subscribers, now number over 800 million households.
 
The Asia-Pacific region fueled most of the subscriber growth in 2012, as 40 million new households in the region signed up for pay-TV services. There are now just over 445 million total pay-TV households in the Asia-Pacific region. In contrast to Asia?s growth, pay-TV subscriber households in North America remained flat last year, finishing at just under 113 million.