Deutsche Telekom adds 109,000 TV customers in 4Q 2014
Thursday, February 26th, 2015BONN — Deutsche Telekom (Frankfurt: DTE)(NYSE:DT) has released its fourth quarter 2014 results report. The company added 65 thousand TV customers in Germany during the final quarter to finish the year with 2.442 million TV subscribers. In the same period Deutsche Telekom’s other European businesses gained 44 thousand TV customers to pass the 3.7 million mark.
TV Customers Summary (Q-o-Q and Y-o-Y)
Dec. 31, 2014 Sept. 30, 2014 Change Change thousands thousands thousands % ------------- ------------- --------- ------ Germany (IPTV, satellite) 2,442 2,377 65 2.7 Europe (IPTV, satellite, cable) 3,714 3,670 44 1.2 Dec. 31, 2014 Dec. 31, 2013 Change Change thousands thousands thousands % ------------- ------------- --------- ------ Germany (IPTV, satellite) 2,442 2,177 265 12.2 Europe (IPTV, satellite, cable) 3,714 3,503 211 6.0
“Our aim is to supply our TV services to 10 million customers across the Group, 5 million of them in Germany by 2017. We will expand our offerings of attractive content, also building on partnerships such as those with Sky or Netflix. We make this content accessible to our customers across all screens, whether television, smartphone, or tablet. In 2014, for example, we took further steps towards ‘TV on all screens’ with our cross-screen TV product ‘Entertain to go’.”
Germany
Among the positive developments in the quarter was the increase in the number of Entertain customers to more than 2.4 million, with more than 40 percent of new VDSL customers also opting for Entertain. In the VDSL roll-out areas, this value is even higher.
At the end of the year, the number of television customers had increased by 12.2 percent compared with the prior year.
TV Customers – Germany (IPTV, satellite)(‘000)
Q4 2013 Q1 2014 Q2 2014 Q3 2014 Q4 2014 Change % ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------- Consumer 2,001 2,071 2,133 2,190 2,254 12.6 Business 174 182 184 185 186 6.9 ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------- TOTAL 2,177 2,255 2,318 2,377 2,442 12.2
Europe
“Our TV business remains a constant growth driver: In 2014, we recorded year-on-year growth of 6.0 percent.”
TV Customers – Europe (IPTV, satellite, cable)(‘000)
Q4 2013 Q1 2014 Q2 2014 Q3 2014 Q4 2014 Change % ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------- Greece 256 278 296 321 354 38.3 Romania 1,353 1,370 1,384 1,397 1,414 4.5 Hungary 885 896 905 910 923 4.3 Czech Republic(2) 31 27 28 29 2 (93.5) Netherlands(3) 59 0 0 0 0 (100.0) Croatia 391 392 394 393 393 0.5 Slovakia(4) 440 444 455 461 468 6.4 ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------- TOTAL(1) 3,503 3,558 3,619 3,670 3,714 6.0
1. The customers of Euronet Communications have no longer been included in the Europe operating segment since Jan. 2, 2014. Historical customer figures have been adjusted accordingly to improve comparability.
2. Our subsidiary in Czech Republic sold its SAT TV customer base in Nov. 2014. This decreased our customer base by 27 thousand customers. Customer figures for prior periods have not been adjusted.
3. DVB-T only.
4. Incl. DIGI Slovakia since Sept. 1, 2013.
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