France reaches 6.2 million IPTV subs | | The number of French homes taking an IPTV subscription reached 6.2 million at the end of 2008, according to the telecoms regulator ARCEP. This represented a growth of 36.8% as compared with the the previous year.
The figure indicates that 37% of all DSL subscribers in the country took television as part of their broadband connection at the end of 2008. The total number of DSL homes was 16.8 million, up 13.5%.
France Telecom was the country’s largest IPTV provider with its Orange TV brand with 2.166 million digital TV subscribers, including 316,000 to the satellite platform, the remainder subscribing via DSL.
Source:BroadbandTVNews |