Cablecom with good quarterly revenue
Cablecom, the cable network operator, increased its revenue by 5.2 percent to 269 million francs in the first quarter of 2008 compared with the same period a year earlier. The number of digital TV subscribers surpassed the 300,000 mark at the end of March.
Cablecom, the cable network operator, increased its revenue in the first quarter of 2008 by 5.2 percent year-on-year to CHF 269 million. In digital TV, the 300,000 customer mark was exceeded at the end of March. Compared to December, Cablecom now has 47,000 more customers in this area. However, as Cablecom announced on Thursday, for the first time not only the rented but also the sold set-top boxes were included.
In contrast, the number of analog TV customers fell by 41,000. Cablecom explained that the majority of these had switched to digital television. All in all, the number of all TV customers increased slightly. The number of Internet customers rose by 13,000 to 468,000, while Cablecom recorded an increase of 10,000 to 298,000 fixed-line telephony customers.
