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Net Serviços digital video base up 5,000 in 4Q09
Feb 10, 2010 – Net Serviços de Comunicação (BM&FBOVESPA: NETC3 and NETC4; NASDAQ: NETC; and Latibex: XNET) has announced results for the fourth quarter of 2009. The Digital Video base increased by 5,000 in the fourth quarter to reach 989,000 clients.
News categories: Net Serviços, Brazil, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers

KDG cable subscribers down 207k in 2009
Feb 10, 2010 – Kabel Deutschland (KDG) has announced results for the quarter ended December 31, 2009. Cable subscribers totaled 8.788 million on December 31, 2009, compared with 8.995 million at the end of 2008, a drop of 207 thousand over the year.
News categories: KDG, Cable TV, Germany, Results, Subscribers

Global Telco TV Service Revenue To Total Nearly $17 Billion in 2010
Feb 10, 2010 – Despite the economic downturn, telco TV market growth was strong in 2009, according to ABI Research. Service revenue for the global telco TV market increased to nearly $12 billion in 2009 and will increase to nearly $17 billion by the end of 2010.
News categories: ABI Research, IPTV, Market Research

TEO LT TV subscribers exceed 100k in 4Q09
Feb 10, 2010 – TEO LT (Vilnius:TEO1L) has released its fourth quarter 2009 results. The number of IPTV service users increased by 38.6% to 56 thousand and the number of DTT users increased 1.8 times and at the end of the year exceeded 46 thousand.
News categories: TEO LT, IPTV, Lithuania, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Canal Digital DTH loses 11,000 subscribers in 4Q09
Feb 10, 2010 – Telenor (Oslo:TEL) has released results for the fourth quarter of 2009. The number of DTH subscribers decreased by 11,000, and the number of cable TV subscriptions decreased by 3,000 during the quarter.
News categories: Telenor, Cable TV, Denmark, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden

Blu-ray Chips Overtake Standard DVD Chips in 2009
Feb 10, 2010 – The transition from DVD to Blu-ray is creating a substantial opportunity for Blu-ray semiconductor companies, reports In-Stat. Blu-ray player semiconductor content overtook DVD player semi content for the first time in 2009.
News categories: In-Stat, Blu-ray, Digital TV, DVD, Market Research, Optical Disc Recorder, Semiconductor

LG Dacom adds 73,000 IPTV subscribers in 4Q09
Feb 9, 2010 – LG Dacom has announced results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2009. Dacom added 73,000 myLGtv IPTV subscribers in the quarter to give a total of 344,000 at the end of the period.
News categories: LG Dacom, myLGtv, IPTV, Korea, Results, Subscribers

Cisco Visual Networking Index Forecast Predicts Continued Mobile Data Traffic Surge
Feb 9, 2010 – The Visual Networking Index (VNI) from Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) projects that annual global mobile data traffic will increase 39-fold from 2009 to 2014 driven by the proliferation of mobile-ready devices and widespread mobile video content consumption.
News categories: Cisco Systems, 5G, Broadband, Digital TV, Market Research, Mobile, Streaming

ER-Telecom ends 2009 with 973,000 cable TV subscribers
Feb 9, 2010 – Russian telecom holding ER-Telecom has reported results for 2009. The number of cable TV users for the whole year 2009 reached 973 thousand, or 10% higher as compared to 2008.
News categories: ER-Telecom, Cable TV, Results, Russia, Subscribers