France Telecom third quarter 2008 financial information
Thursday, October 30th, 2008PARIS — France Telecom (Paris:FTE)(NYSE:FTE) group’s consolidated revenue rose to 39.854 billion euros in the first nine months of 2008, up 1.1% on an historical basis.
Home Communication Services
The continued decline in traditional telephone services was largely offset by the steady growth in the use of ADSL Broadband and Multiservices. In particular, the third quarter of 2008 saw an acceleration in Voice over IP services (with nearly 370,000 new customers) and of digital TV, with new service offers (satellite TV and “Orange foot” football service in France). The number of digital TV customers came to 1.746 million at 30 September 2008, with 211,000 new customers in the third quarter of 2008.
ADSL digital TV services (IPTV) had a total of 1.746 million subscribers in Europe at 30 September 2008, compared with 1.017 million at 30 September 2007, a 72% increase in one year.
IPTV customers (‘000):
1Q06 2Q06 3Q06 4Q06 1Q07 2Q07 3Q07 4Q07 1Q08 2Q08 3Q08 ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- France* 229 306 421 577 745 837 975 1,149 1,282 1,389 1,603 Poland 3 9 19 23 40 49 54 57 Others 5 10 14 16 18 54 75 92 86 ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- Total Europe 229 306 426 590 768 872 1,017 1,243 1,407 1,535 1,746
* Orange TV customers (ADSL and Satellite)
HCS France
1.603 million digital TV subscribers (satellite and ADSL television), an increase of 64.4% in one year. With respect to this, at 30 September 2008, there were a total of 70,000 subscribers to the Orange satellite TV offer marketed since 3 July.
Video on Demand services (VOD) more than doubled to 3.4 million paid downloads during the first nine months of 2008, compared with 1.6 million in the same period of 2007.
There were a total of 59,300 subscribers, at 30 September 2008, to the “Orange foot” football service (TV broadcast live and on demand) which has been marketed since 9 August.
HCS Poland
The number of ADSL subscribers rose to 2.087 million at 30 September 2008, a year-on-year increase of 7.1%.
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