Magyar Telekom Sat TV up 34k and IPTV up 9k in 3Q09

Thursday, November 5th, 2009
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BUDAPEST — Magyar Telekom, part of Deutsche Telekom (Frankfurt: DTE)(NYSE:DT), today reported its consolidated financial results for the first nine months of 2009, in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

Consumer Services Business Unit (CBU)

TV related revenues grew further thanks to the solid demand for our TV products. The total number of TV customers was close to 584,000 by the end of September with growth mostly driven by our T-Home Sat TV satellite TV service, while demand for IPTV also strengthened.

T-Home’s market share of the pay-TV market reached 23% in September.

  • Macedonia (Makedonski Telekom) – fixed line: The voice revenue decline was partly offset by growing internet and IPTV revenues driven by the expanding customer base.
  • Montenegro (Crnogorski Telekom) – fixed line: Both internet and TV revenues grew considerably thanks to the strong increases in the number of ADSL and IPTV customers.

TV customers:

                                                  2008                          2009
                --------------------------------------  ----------------------------
                March 31   June 30   Sept 30    Dec 31  March 31   June 30   Sept 30
                --------  --------  --------  --------  --------  --------  --------
Cable TV         420,408   418,102   417,329   422,936   420,825   414,002   409,197
Satellite              0         0         0     5,338    47,144    87,748   121,563
IPTV              12,883    15,569    18,580    28,496    37,530    44,031    53,176
  Macedonia            0         0         0     1,952     4,120     5,449     8,301 
  Montenegro       9,023    11,087    12,521    17,531    19,309    22,013    24,581

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