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Belgacom TV has said its customer base grew by 75,000 customers compared to 52,000 for the same period last year. “The number of net adds in the third quarter 2009 was positively influenced by the launch of “FAIR”, a company-wide programme to address cable competition,” according to the incumbent.

One of the reasons cited by the operator is the launch of the “Free TV” campaign, which refers to the monthly saving customers realize by signing up for this offer. The launch of new multi-play offer in July 2009 led to an all-time high sales figure for bundled offers (the so-called ‘Packs’) and Belgacom TV, adding respectively 70,000 and 75,000 customers in the third quarter 2009.

By end of September 2009, the total Belgacom TV customer base amounted to 663,000, including 88,000 second stream users. In one year time, Belgacom’s TV customer base grew by 220,000 customers. The continued customer growth is the main driver of the Belgacom TV revenue growth.

Compared to September 2008, the revenue grew by 51.2% to €94 million and now contributes for 5% to the total CBU revenue.

The television ARPU per household end of September 2009 was €20.10, or an increase of 1.8% compared to a year ago, driven by a lower impact of promotions. The third quarter ARPU of €20.6 significantly improved compared to the previous quarter as a result of increased sales of set-top boxes and slightly higher usage of on-demand services.

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Telenet DTV versus Belgacom TV

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Written by Schelstraete Bart

Sunday, 05 July 2009 20:27

A lot of people are asking: What is now better? Belgacom TV or Telenet DTV? Well, it's not that easy.

If you are honest, there is no 'best' product. It all depends on what you, you as user, want. We don't have stocks of Telenet, and neither of Belgacom, therefore a small comparison according to us.


Description	Telenet DTV	Belgacom TV
Number of channels in standard pack.	+/- 50	+/- 70 note: quite some Flemish channels not available)
Number of radio channels in standard pack	+/- 25	+/- 20 (NL&FR!)
Red button possible	Yes	Yes
On demand	Yes	Yes
Belgian Jupiler league	No	Yes
European soccer and other sports	Yes	No
Services: e-mail	Yes	No
Services: games	Yes	No
Recording	Yes	Yes (only using EPG)
Recording 2 concurrent channels	Yes	No
Primary language	Dutch	French
Decoder available in English	No	No
TV on PC	Yes	No (but workarounds possible)
EPG	Yes	Yes

Pricing? No, we are not going to discuss that. There are to much differences to really compare.. one wants to have soccer, another one wants to use 10 televisions, etc. 1 thing is sure.. it's always cheaper to use all products with the same provider. So if you already have Belgacom ADSL, it will be a lot cheaper to take Belgacom TV. (if you have telephone, even for free)

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gtarider - Belgacom TV

|Registered |2009-10-02 14:29:13

Could you tell me which Flemish channels are missi ng on Belgacom TV? PS: record
ing 2 channels is pos sible. Recording not using the EPG will be availa ble in
the upcoming weeks.

A Belgacom TV fan

bschelst

|Registered |2009-11-14 19:53:56

Not true, manual recording is only scheduled in Q1 2010.

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