Finance (M&A, results, venture capital, private equity, …) News

2.1 million digital TV subscribers for J:COM at end-Q1
Apr 28, 2009 – Jupiter Telecommunications (JASDAQ: 4817) has announced results for the three months ended March 31, 2009. J:COM TV Digital subscribers rose by 521,800 to 2,085,300 households with 424,500 HDR PVR contracts at the end of the quarter.
News categories: Jupiter Telecom, Cable TV, DVR, Japan, Results, Subscribers

128k IPTV subscribers for Telefonica O2 Czech Republic
Apr 28, 2009 – Telefónica O2 Czech Republic has announced its results for the first quarter of 2009. The total number of reported O2TV customers reached 128 thousand at the end of the quarter, up by 46.6% yoy.
News categories: Telefónica O2 Czech Republic, Czech Republic, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

J:COM exceeds 2 million digital cable TV households
Apr 28, 2009 – Jupiter Telecommunications (JASDAQ: 4817) has announced that the number of J:COM TV Digital subscribers rose by 521,800 to 2,085,300 households in the year to March 31, 2009, accounting for 82% of all cable television subscribers.
News categories: Jupiter Telecommunications, Cable TV, DVR, Japan, Results, Subscribers

Zoran DTV Revenues Increase 39 Percent Sequentially
Apr 28, 2009 – Zoran (Nasdaq: ZRAN) has reported results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2009. Zoran achieved 39 percent sequential revenue growth in DTV, driven by increasing demand for low- to mid- range LCD TVs.
News categories: Zoran, Results, Semiconductor, Smart TV

KPN Q1 results 2009
Apr 28, 2009 – KPN Group (Amsterdam:KPN) has release its results for the quarter ended March 31, 2009. KPN TV (Digitenne DTT and IPTV) customers were up 60 thousand in the quarter to give a total of 835 thousand at end-March.
News categories: KPN, Fibre, IPTV, Netherlands, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Telekomunikacja Polska (TPSA) releases selected data for Q1
Apr 28, 2009 – Telekomunikacja Polska (TPSA) has provided selected data related to the first quarter (1Q) ended March 31, 2009. TPSA's broadband total customer base was up 11%, strongly supported by TV subscriptions four times above the Q1 2008 level.
News categories: Telekomunikacja Polska, IPTV, Poland, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Thomson sees strong growth in cable set-top box volumes
Apr 27, 2009 – Thomson (Paris: 18453, NYSE: TMS) has announced results for the quarter ending March 31, 2009. In comparison with a particularly weak 1Q 2008 there was a strong performance in access products in 1Q 2009.
News categories: Thomson, Cable Modem, Cable TV, CPE, DVR, Gateway, IPTV, Results, Router, Satellite, Set Top Box

Verizon Reports Results for 1Q 2009
Apr 27, 2009 – Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) has reported its results for the first quarter 2009. Verizon added 299,000 net new FiOS TV customers to give a total of 2.2 million, an increase of 83.8 percent compared with the first quarter 2008.
News categories: Verizon, Fibre, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, USA

TeliaSonera January-March 2009
Apr 24, 2009 – TeliaSonera (Stockholm: TLSN) net sales increased 11.5 percent to SEK 27,204 million (24,398). The total number of TV subscriptions rose by 100,000 from the first quarter 2008 to 688,000, of which 509,000 were IPTV subscriptions, up 102,000.
News categories: TeliaSonera, Cable TV, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, IPTV, Lithuania, Norway, Results, Subscribers, Sweden