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Belgium - BeTV finally making money
Jul 15, 2007 – Pay-TV operator Be TV has just turned its first ever profit, Be TV's CEO Daniel Weekers told the Belgian press. The number of subscribers grew to 123,000 from 116,000 over the period, taking out a total of 285,000 subscriptions, up from 268,000.
News categories: Belgium, Cable TV, Digital TV, Subscribers

3 Italia surpasses 600,000 subscribers for DVB-H service
Jul 13, 2007 – Italian mobile telephony operator 3 Italia has surpassed the threshold of 600,000 subscribers for its mobile TV DVB-H service, launched in July 2006 during the soccer World Cup in Germany.
News categories: Digital TV, Italy, Mobile, Subscribers

BSkyB Trading Update for the 3 Months to 30 June 2007
Jul 11, 2007 – BSkyB will be holding a business update for analysts and investors at 9am BST today (11 July). Key operating metrics for the three months to 30 June: Net customer adds of 90,000 to 8.582 million; 2.374 million Sky+ households; 292,000 HD subscribers.
News categories: Broadband, Digital TV, DVR, Ireland, Satellite, Subscribers, UK

IPR at the heart of Vietnam pay-TV growth
Jul 11, 2007 – The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has reaffirmed regional television industry support for the remarkable growth of the Vietnam pay-TV industry - recently at more than 50% per year.
News categories: CASBAA, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial, Vietnam

Chinese IPTV targeting a million
Jul 11, 2007 – China's only IPTV service has 400,000 subscribers and is hoping to reach 1 million by the end of 2007.
News categories: China, Digital TV, IPTV, Subscribers

Sistema Announces Financial Results for Three Months Ended March 31, 2007
Jul 10, 2007 – The Stream-TV subscriber base grew by 4% quarter on quarter to 1.66 million subscribers by the end of the quarter, including 1.56 million pay-TV customers, 86,000 Internet and 9,700 telephony subscribers.
News categories: Sistema, Earnings Release, Broadband, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Russia, Subscribers

Sweden - Continued growth for Boxer
Jul 5, 2007 – By 30 June 2007 Boxer had 678,000 digital-TV subscribers, representing an increase of 24,000 during the first half of this year and an increase of 6,000 during the second quarter. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial

NDS leads CA, but for how much longer?
Jul 1, 2007 – A Screen Digest study just published says News Corp-owned conditional access (CA) supplier NDS has a 47% market share, and is Europe’s largest supplier. More …
News categories: Cable TV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Europe, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers

IPTV equipment sales hit $424M in 1Q07
Jun 30, 2007 – According to a new report from Infonetics Research, worldwide IPTV equipment revenue hit $423.9 million in the first quarter of 2007. More …
News categories: Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Subscribers