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据法国国际电视委员会(CIT)最近发表的题为“1985年西欧的CATV通信”研究论文宣称,欧洲的CATV并非是常被描述的那种祸患。该论文披露,目前西洲已有8.5％的居民住宅用上了CATV,今后10年内可能翻一番。 CATV通信仍旧高度地集中于比利时、荷兰和瑞士,这些国家虽然只占有西欧家庭住户的8％,但却拥有西欧CATV用户的三分之二以上。现有的绝大多数CATV系统规模甚小,也许有85％的系统所连接的住宅还不到100户。事实上,在整个西欧地区大约200个CATV网才拥有1万多用户。比利时与荷兰不仅是CATV用户的最集中区域(分别占总居民户的83％和60％),而且还拥有大部分的规模最大的网络。在英国,随着陈旧的中继网络逐步淘汰,而至今还无多信道系统来替代,故CATV用户将继续下降。在法国,尽管政府计划实施国立网络,但进展却十分缓慢,自84年以来,网络用户的增加寥寥无几。在西德,联邦邮政局(Bundepost)大量采用CATV,所以目前已有1百多万户家庭接入了CATV网。
According to a recent research paper entitled “CATV Communications in Western Europe, 1985,” published by the French International Television Commission (CIT), the claim that CATV in Europe is not the kind of scourge that has often been described. The paper disclosed that at present, 8.5% of residential dwellings in Western Europe have been put on CATV, which may double in the next 10 years. CATV communications are still highly concentrated in Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland, which, although they account for only 8% of households in Western Europe, have over two-thirds of CATV users in Western Europe. The vast majority of existing CATV systems are very small, with perhaps 85% of the systems connected to less than 100 households. In fact, there are more than 10,000 users in about 200 CATV networks throughout Western Europe. Belgium and the Netherlands are not only the most concentrated areas for CATV subscribers (83 and 60% respectively of the total population), they also have most of the largest networks. In the UK, CATV subscribers will continue to decline as obsolete relay networks are phased out and there is no alternative to multi-channel systems so far. In France, despite the government’s plan to implement the national network, progress has been slow, with few users of the network increasing since 1984. In West Germany, CATV is heavily used in the Bundepost, so more than 1 million households now have access to the CATV network.