1.3 million digital cable subscribers for Unitymedia

COLOGNE — Unitymedia Group, Europe’s third largest cable-based media and communications services provider, today announced results for the quarter ended March 31, 2009.

Basic Cable Services

As of March 31, 2009, we provided our basic cable services to 4.6 million subscribers, or 52 percent of homes passed by our network. 29 percent of these basic cable subscribers had switched to digital access as of March 31, 2009.

Digital TV Pay Services

Our Digital TV Pay RGUs increased year over year by 110,000 from 485,000 to 595,000 as of March 31, 2009 reflecting increased take-up of our Digital TV Pay packages offset by some Bundesliga churn, which is also expected in the coming quarters.

In its Pay TV business the company continues its strategy to upsell advanced services from a growing digital base. Take-up for the new Digital Video Recorder has been encouraging even before full marketing campaigns in the second quarter.

Unitymedia Cable Business Review (in ‘000s unless otherwise stated):

                                    Quarter ended
                                        March 31,
                                    -------------      YoY
                                     2009    2008   Change 
                                    -----   -----   ------
Basic Cable
  Analogue                          3,262   3,808   -14.3%
  Digital                           1,315     925    42.2%
    Total Basic Cable               4,577   4,733

Penetration
  BCS in % of Homes Passed            52%     55%   -2.3pp
  Digital in % of BCS                 29%     20%    9.2pp
  Digital (w/Premiere) in % of BCS    33%     24%    9.5pp

New Service RGUs
  Digital TV Pay                      595     485    22.8%

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