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COFETEL releases Mexico quarterly pay TV numbers
Sep 7, 2009 – Mexico's Comisión Federal de Telecomunicaciones (COFETEL) has released second quarter 2009 figures for its Telecommunications Sector Production Index (ITEL). Satellite is growing the fastest, year-on-year, with a rise of 13.2 percent.
News categories: COFETEL, Cable TV, Market Research, Mexico, MMDS, Satellite, Subscribers

Sun Direct crosses 4 million subscribers
Sep 7, 2009 – Sun Direct, the direct-to-home (DTH) service provider in India, has achieved another milestone by crossing the 4 million subscriber base; the fastest growing player in the DTH market to do so in under two years, since its launch in December 2007.
News categories: Sun Direct, Digital TV, India, Satellite, Subscribers

Deutsche Telekom Entertain IPTV passes 800,000 marketed packages
Sep 4, 2009 – The Entertain IPTV offering from Deutsche Telekom (Frankfurt: DTE)(NYSE:DT) is about to break into the mass market with over 800,000 marketed packages. The Group has a target of marketing one million Entertain packages by the end of the year.
News categories: Deutsche Telekom, DVR, Germany, IFABerlin, IPTV, Middleware, Subscribers

Korea cable TV plans big digital push
Sep 2, 2009 – According to the Korea Cable TV Association (KCTA), there are 15.3 million cable TV subscribers in the country, of which 2.3 million, or 15%, were digital at the end of June 2009.
News categories: Korea Cable TV Association, Cable TV, Digital TV, Korea, Subscribers

Canal+ converts 240,000 to digital in 1st half 2009
Sep 1, 2009 – Vivendi (Paris: VIV) has released results for the first half of 2009. Canal+'s migration of analog subscribers accelerated over the past six months with nearly 240,000 upgrades to digital since January 2009, ahead of targets.
News categories: Vivendi, Canal+ Group, SFR, France, IPTV, Poland, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Vietnam

US IPTV Market Forecast to Hit 15.5 Million Subs by 2013
Sep 1, 2009 – The US IPTV market will grow from over 5 million subscribers in 2009 to 15.5 million by 2013, according to a report just published by analyst firm Strategy Analytics.
News categories: Strategy Analytics, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Subscribers, USA

PrimaCom releases 1st Half 2009 Interim Report
Aug 31, 2009 – PrimaCom (Frankfurt:PRC) has reported results for the period January to June 2009. The average number of digital TV subscribers in the first half of 2009 was 46,302 compared with 13,401 in the first half of 2008.
News categories: PrimaCom, Cable TV, Germany, Results, Subscribers

Internet TV Subscribers to Rise by More Than 50 Percent in 2009
Aug 31, 2009 – The global Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) market withstood the worst of the worldwide economic storm during the last six months, putting it on track to achieve more than 50 percent subscriber growth in 2009, according to iSuppli Corp.
News categories: iSuppli, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Subscribers

Slovenia's SiOL TV reaches 101k subscribers at end-2Q09
Aug 28, 2009 – Telekom Slovenia (Ljubljana:TLSG) has reported results for the first six months of 2009. The number of IPTV subscribers has increased by 71% within one year to almost 102,000 at the end of June 2009.
News categories: SiOL TV, Aneks, Ipko, Telekom Slovenije, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cable TV, IPTV, Kosovo, Results, Slovenia, Subscribers