In a disappointing set of results reporting a €582 million fourth-quarter loss following a €1.3 billion writedown on impairments in Romania and Greece, Deutsche Telekom revealed it ended 2010 with a total of 1.6 million customers for its IPTV platform Entertain, a growth of 81 per cent compared with 2009. DT said it was aiming […]
International MSO Liberty Global revealed quarterly revenue up 17.8 per cent following on good growth in Germany and Poland, and confirmed its European expansion ambitions. “Over 80 per cent of our business is now squarely focused in Europe… we remain well capitalized to pursue additional consolidation opportunities in our core European markets,” said president and chief executive […]
Belgacomhas reported Q4 earnings before EBITDA and special items rose 6 per cent to €495 million, beating expectations. Belgium’s largest telco added 223,000 subscribers to its IPTV service ‘Belgacom TV’ to reach a total of 975,000 customers by the end of 2010. The company sold a total of 311,000 multi-play packs last year, bringing the […]
Dish Network posted bigger-than-expected subscriber losses for the fourth quarter because of customers cancelling their service after a dispute with Fox Network in October blacked out sports shows. The second-largest US DTH provider lost 156,000 subscribers during the quarter. The company is losing market share to main competitor, DirecTV Group, which reported a higher-than-expected profit […]
France Telecom has reported strong growth in profit for 2010, driven mainly by higher gain on the formation of Orange and T-Mobile joint venture in the UK as well as strong revenue performance in rest of the world segment. For the year, net income attributable to owners of the parent increased to €4.88 billion from […]
As expected, Sky Deutschland has confirmed greater losses for the year (to December 31st 2010), despite managing to grow sales revenues impressively up 8 per cent (to €977.8m) with Q4 revenue well ahead of 2009’s effort at €263.7 million (€230m in 2009). But the headlines will be the widening losses, with EBITDA loss at €268.6 […]
The Kudelski Group, owner of Nagravision and Open TV, announced its 2010 results with total revenues revenues flat but EBITDA up 25 per cent at CHF173 million (€135m). There was strong organic growth in the Digital TV division, posting a sales growth of 6.8 per cent. This was in contrast with weaker growth rates in […]
Along with the impressive DirecTV results, released yesterday, the numbers are also in for Sky Mexico, a joint-venture between Televisa and DirecTV. Sky Mexico has topped 3 million subs (3.04m) as at December 31st, and a huge 35.6 per cent jump since 2009 (where DTH subs totalled 1.95m). A joint press release from Mexico City […]
While cable MSOs suffered some cord cutting in the downturn, US pay-TV operator DirecTV added close on 300,000 net new American subscribers during its fourth quarter (to December 31st 2010) and said that growth was ahead of expectations. Indeed, the net growth for Q4 was the best for the past ten years when Latino subscriptions […]
Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB) has reported the Group’s unaudited consolidated financial results for the full year 2010. Full year revenue reached $356.6 million, to which the newly acquired broadband business (Pirelli Broadband Solutions, renamed as “ADB Broadband”, or “ADBB”) contributed $20 million. It has been consolidated with the ADB Group core business for the month […]