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ZON announces 1Q08 Consolidated Results
May 7, 2008 – ZON's Pay TV customer base grew in 1Q08 by 13.4 thousand customers, representing 60.3% more net additions than in 1Q07 and digitally enabled subscribers continued to grow as a percentage of the Pay TV customer base to 26% compared with 20% in 1Q07.
News categories: ZON Multimédia, Cable TV, Digital TV, Portugal, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

France Telecom financial information - first quarter 2008
May 7, 2008 – France Telecom's Digital TV over ADSL services (IPTV) had 1.41 million subscribers in Europe at 31 March 2008 compared with 770,000 at 31 March 2007, an increase of 83%.
News categories: France Telecom, Broadband, Digital TV, France, IPTV, Poland, Results, Set Top Box, Spain, Subscribers

Liberty Global Reports First Quarter 2008 Results
May 7, 2008 – Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) has announced financial and operating results for the first quarter. At March 31, 2008 total RGUs of 24.4 million included 14.7 million video and 5.6 million broadband subscribers.
News categories: Liberty Global, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Broadband, Cable TV, Chile, Czech Republic, Digital TV, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, MMDS, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Results, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Subscribers, Switzerland

CopperGate Communications Achieves Five Million HomePNA Chipset Milestone
May 7, 2008 – CopperGate Communications has announced the shipment of 5 million HomePNA chipsets worldwide - making the company the leader in IPTV services over coax and phone wires.
News categories: CopperGate, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Semiconductor, Smart Home

Swisscom announces Q1 2008 results
May 7, 2008 – At the end of March 2008 Swisscom's «Bluewin TV» was used by 64,000 paying customers. Net growth in the first quarter of 2008 amounted to around 5,000 customers.
News categories: Swisscom, Broadband, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, Switzerland

IPTV Set-Top Boxes - $3 Billion Business in 2012
May 6, 2008 – The IMS Research study 'IPTV: A Global Market Analysis - 2008 Edition' forecasts that, on a worldwide basis, shipments of IP set-top boxes will grow at a CAGR of 37.1% through the end of 2012, with HD DVR boxes nearing 35%.
News categories: IMS Research, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Gutierrez Announces One Million Coupons Used for TV Converter Box Coupon Program
May 6, 2008 – U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez has issued a statement announcing one million coupons have been used as part of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) TV Converter Box Coupon Program.
News categories: National Telecommunications and Information Administration, ATSC 3, Digital TV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Terrestrial, USA

DiBcom Has Shipped Ten Million Mobile TV Components
May 6, 2008 – DiBcom has reached a decisive milestone in the emerging Digital Mobile TV market having delivered over 10 million components to different segments of the market.
News categories: DiBcom, Automotive, Digital TV, Market Research, Mobile, Semiconductor, Tablet, Terrestrial

Com Hem has 410,000 digital TV subscribers
May 5, 2008 – During the period January-March 2008 Com Hem increased its number of digital-TV subscribers by 16,000 to 410,000.
News categories: Com Hem, Broadband, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, Sweden