Orange passes 6 million pay TV customer mark in 1Q 2013
Wednesday, April 24th, 2013PARIS — France Telecom-Orange (NYSE:FTE) has released results for the first quarter of 2013.
France
The fixed broadband customer base rose 2.7% year on year to 9.934 million subscribers at 31 March 2013. Within this figure, optical fibre showed accelerated growth with 206,000 subscribers. The fixed broadband net additions market share was estimated at 15.7% for the first quarter of 2013 as a whole, with significant improvement in March related to the marketing of the Livebox Play. Digital TV grew 14.3% year on year to 5.208 million customers at 31 March 2013.
Poland
Fixed broadband revenues rose 9.3%, led by the increase in ARPU with the growth of multiplay offers. The number of VoIP customers grew sharply in one year, rising 89.5% to 440,000 customers at 31 March 2013, while the number of digital TV customers rose 5.4% to 699,000 customers at 31 March 2013. At the same time, the number of fixed broadband customers remained stable over the year, with 2.333 million customers at 31 March 2013.
IPTV and TVoSAT subscribers:
1Q12 2Q12 3Q12 4Q12 1Q13 ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- France (IPTV and satellite) 4,555 4,703 4,882 5,067 5,208 Spain (IPTV) 68 68 69 71 68 Poland (IPTV and satellite) 663 677 695 706 699 Others 63 58 59 64 68 ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- All (IPTV and satellite) 5,349 5,506 5,705 5,908 6,043
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