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BT Group plc Results For The Third Quarter To 31 December 2008
Feb 12, 2009 – BT Group (LSE:BT.A)(NYSE:BT) revenue of £5,437m was 5% higher in the quarter, benefiting from favourable foreign exchange movements of £198m and the impact of acquisitions. The BT Vision customer base has now reached more than 398,000 customers.
News categories: BT Vision, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial, UK

Iliad (Free) 2008 Revenues
Feb 12, 2009 – Iliad Group (Paris: ILD)'s 2008 consolidated revenues were €1,565 million, a 29% increase compared to 2007. Free gained 485,000 new subscribers, net of churn, to a total of 3,389,000 subscribers at the end of 2008.
News categories: Iliad, France, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

Half a billion views for Virgin Media's on demand TV
Feb 12, 2009 – TV viewing habits on brink of major change Record-breaking year with 516 million on demand views in 2008 BBC iPlayer on Virgin Media approaching 100 million views 2008 was the year on demand television came of age with Virgin Media’s TV viewers watching over half a billion on demand programmes. With a record-breaking 56 million […]
News categories: Virgin Media, Cable TV, Streaming, Subscribers, UK

Telenor (Canal Digital) Fourth quarter and preliminary results for 2008
Feb 11, 2009 – Canal Digital (Oslo:TEL) revenues increased primarily due to a higher number of cable TV subscribers and higher sales of additional services both to cable and DTH subscribers. The number of DTH subscribers decreased by 12,000 during the quarter.
News categories: Telenor, Cable TV, CAM, Conditional Access, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial

StarHub Reports 2008 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results
Feb 10, 2009 – StarHub (Singapore: CC3) pay TV revenue jumped 17% to S$398 million from S$342 million. The number of customers on the digital platform increased 24% to 504,000 households with digital customers making up 96% of the total customer base.
News categories: StarHub, Cable TV, Results, Singapore, Subscribers

Verizon FiOS Challenges DIRECTV as HDTV Leader, Analysis Shows
Feb 10, 2009 – DIRECTV continues to offer the most high-definition channels of any pay TV provider, but Verizon is catching up quickly with its FiOS TV service, according to a new analysis by market research provider Pike & Fischer.
News categories: Pike & Fischer, Cable TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, USA

Sanoma (Welho)'s Year-End Statement 2008
Feb 10, 2009 – Sanoma (Helsinki:SAA1V) Entertainment's net sales from other operations increased clearly in 2008 due to Welho's strong pay TV and broadband sales. Pay TV business was boosted by investments focused on offering more High Definition (HD) channels.
News categories: Welho, Cable TV, Finland, Results, Subscribers

Half a Billion Mobile TV Viewers and Subscribers in 2013
Feb 10, 2009 – The approaching switchover to all-digital television broadcasting in the United States and other major countries will create an unprecedented opportunity for the mobile TV market, according to a new study from ABI Research.
News categories: ABI Research, Digital TV, Market Research, Mobile

TEO revenues grew by 4.1 per cent up to LTL 826 million over the year 2008
Feb 10, 2009 – TEO LT (Vilnius:TEO1L) has announced results for the twelve months of 2008. The number of IPTV users increased by 2.3 times and reached almost 40.4 thousand. The number of customers using the DVB-T service was 26.3 thousand at the end of the year.
News categories: TEO LT, IPTV, Lithuania, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial