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Pay TV in Portugal up 85,000 subscribers in 4Q09
Feb 26, 2010 – According to the Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações (ANACOM), in the fourth quarter of 2009, the total number of pay TV subscribers in Portugal exceeded 2.5 million, 85 thousand more than in the previous quarter and 243 thousand more than a year earlier.
News categories: ANACOM, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Portugal, Satellite, Subscribers

Telefónica España adds 49k IPTV subscribers in 4Q09
Feb 26, 2010 – Telefónica (Madrid and NYSE: TEF) has released its fourth quarter 2009 results. Worldwide, pay TV accesses stood at around 2.5 million at the end of 2009, 9.8% up from a year earlier. In Spain net adds were 48,725 to finish the year at 702,980.
News categories: Telefónica, Argentina, Brazil, Cable TV, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, IPTV, Peru, Results, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers, Venezuela

Belgacom TV adds 89,000 subscriptions in 4Q09
Feb 26, 2010 – Belgacom (Brussels: BELG) has released its annual results for 2009. In 2009, Belgacom grew its TV customer base by 246,000 subscribers, compared to 201,000 in 2008. In the fourth quarter of 2009 Belgacom TV added a record 89,000 new subscriptions.
News categories: Belgacom, Belgium, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

Megacable digital cable subscribers up 89% in 2009
Feb 25, 2010 – Mexico's Megacable Holdings (BMV: MEGA.CPO) has announced its results for the quarter ended December 31, 2009. The video segment ended the year with 1,592,841 subscribers, an increase of 7%. Digital cable subscribers were 311,726 up 89% in the year.
News categories: Megacable, Cable TV, Mexico, Results, Subscribers

IPTV still in a nascent state in the Arab World
Feb 25, 2010 – According to the Arab Advisors Group, eight service providers in seven countries in the Arab World offered commercial IPTV services in January 2010, up from four service providers in three countries offering IPTV in August 2007.
News categories: Arab Advisors, Algeria, Bahrain, Digital TV, Egypt, IPTV, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Market Research, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, UAE, Yemen

BoomTV in Macedonia has 11,000 users at end-2009
Feb 25, 2010 – The Telekom Slovenia Group (Telekom Slovenije, d.d.) [Ljubljana:TLSG] has released its business report for 2009. At end-2009, Ipko in Kosovo had nearly 43,000 digital cable TV connections and BoomTV in Macedonian had over 11,000 television users.
News categories: Telekom Slovenije, BoomTV, Ipko, Aneks, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cable TV, IPTV, Kosovo, Macedonia, Results, Slovenia, Subscribers

OTE Conn-x IPTV at 16k subscribers and RomTelecom DTH at 880k at end-2009
Feb 25, 2010 – The OTE Group (ASE: HTO, NYSE: OTE) has announced results for the quarter ended December 31, 2009. As of December 2009, OTE's Conn-x IPTV service had attracted more than 16,000 subscribers. RomTelecom direct-to-home TV subscribers reached 880,000.
News categories: OTE Group, RomTelecom, Greece, IPTV, Results, Romania, Satellite, Subscribers

SureWest Video RGUs down 100 in 4Q09
Feb 25, 2010 – SureWest (Nasdaq: SURW) has announced results for the quarter ended December 31, 2009. SureWest's video service is expanding to reach over 25,000 ILEC homes on the Sacramento copper network, the first 15,000 homes became available in January 2010.
News categories: SureWest, Fibre, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, USA

DT Germany connects 128,000 IPTV customers in 4Q09
Feb 25, 2010 – Deutsche Telekom (Frankfurt: DTE)(NYSE:DT) has reported results for the full year 2009. In Germany DT sold more than one million Entertain packages, and in Southern and Eastern Europe the number of IPTV customers almost doubled to over 400,000.
News categories: Deutsche Telekom, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, IPTV, Results, Slovakia, Subscribers