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Deutsche Telekom's Entertain IPTV sells 210,000 subscriptions
May 15, 2008 – In a speech at the Deutsche Telekom AG (Frankfurt: DTE)(NYSE:DT) 2008 Shareholders' Meeting, René Obermann, Chairman of the Board of Management said that Deutsche Telekom's 'Entertain' IPTV service had sold over 210,000 packages.
News categories: Deutsche Telekom, Digital TV, Germany, IPTV, Subscribers

Insight Announces First Quarter 2008 Results
May 15, 2008 – Insight Communications has announced financial and operating results for the quarter ended March 31, 2008. Total digital customers at quarter end were 396,900, a net gain of 16,300.
News categories: Insight Communications, Cable TV, Digital TV, Results, Subscribers, USA

SNL Kagan Forecasts Growth in U.S. Multichannel Video
May 15, 2008 – According to an updated projection from SNL Kagan, U.S. multichannel video services are expected to grow moderately over the next five years in a period that will be marked by increased competition for subscriber loyalty.
News categories: Kagan, Cable TV, Digital TV, Subscribers, USA

BT preliminary results - year to March 31, 2008
May 15, 2008 – BT (LSE: BT.A)(NYSE: BT) continued the roll out of BT Vision with customer numbers reaching 214,000. Of the 94,000 net additions in the quarter, the subscription attachment rate at point of sale averaged 68 per cent.
News categories: BT Vision, Broadband, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, UK

Q1 2008: Premiere increases revenues to EUR 251.5 million
May 15, 2008 – As of March 31, 2008, Premiere (PRE.XE) had 4,242,467 subscribers (March 31, 2008: 3,460,572), of which 621,908 were indirect arena customers. Compared to Q1 2007 figures, the number of direct subscribers rose by 4.6 percent to 3,620,559.
News categories: Premiere AG, Austria, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Germany, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Telekom Austria (aonTV) Results for the First Quarter 2008
May 14, 2008 – Telekom Austria Group (VSE: TKA, OTC US: TKAGY) has announced its results for the first quarter 2008 ending March 31, 2008. aonTV had 38,600 customers at the end of the period.
News categories: Telekom Austria, Austria, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Set Top Box, Subscribers

SingTel Group's results for the fourth quarter and year ended 31 March 2008
May 14, 2008 – SingTel (Singapore: SGX; Australia: ASX) announced a double-digit growth in net profit for its fourth quarter ended 31 March 2008. The mio TV subscriber base increased by 17,000 to 44,000 customers as at 31 March 2008.
News categories: SingTel, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Singapore, Subscribers

Telefonica posts a 22.4% increase in net profit in the first quarter to €1,538 million
May 14, 2008 – Telefónica (Madrid:TEF)(NYSE:TEF) has increased global pay TV subscribers by +64.4%. In Spain, Telefonica added 42,958 new IPTV customers in the quarter (35,591 in the same period of 2007) to give a total of 554,045 at the end of March 2008.
News categories: Telefónica, Brazil, Broadband, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Digital TV, IPTV, MMDS, Peru, Results, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers

THAICOM Announces First Quarter 2008 Results
May 14, 2008 – DTV Service Co, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Thaicom (SET BKK: THCOM), has announced that at the end of the first quarter a total of 145,762 DTV satellite dish sets had been sold since the service was launched in mid 2007.
News categories: THAICOM, Cambodia, Digital TV, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Thailand