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Ziggo leads drop in Dutch TV subscriptions in Q2 2015

2015-08-28 10:00:26| Digital TV News

The Dutch TV market lost 17,000 connections during the second quarter of 2015, to end the quarter with 7.85 million subscribers, according to Telecompaper. Cable operators continue to lose market share to IPTV providers.

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Ziggo leads drop in Dutch TV subscriptions in Q2

2015-08-28 08:55:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) The Dutch TV market lost 17,000 connections during the second quarter of 2015, to end the quarter with 7.85 million subscribers. The decline was mainly due to Ziggo losing customers. According to Telecompaper's latest quarterly report on the Dutch Television Market, the cable operators continue to lose market share to IPTV providers over DSL and fibre networks.

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Global mobile data traffic up 55% in Q2 - Ericsson

2015-08-27 15:50:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) Mobile data traffic worldwide increased 15 percent on a quarterly basis and 55 percent year-on-year in the second quarter, according to the latest report from Ericsson. The company found that there are now over 3 billion mobile broadband users in the world, an increase of 140 million the three months to June. The growth in mobile data was supported by both more 3G and LTE users and more smartphones. The number of LTE users rose by 115 million to around 740 million, while the number of GSM-only mobile users fell by 80 million in Q2. Smartphones meanwhile accounted for 75 percent of all phones sold, up from 65 percent in Q2 2014. In total, Ericsson estimates there were 7.2 billion mobile subscriptions in the world at the end of June, equal to 99 percent mobile penetration. The total increased by 5 percent year-on-year and by 0.7 percent compared to the first quarter. The strongest growth in the period was in India (+12 million users), Myanmar (+5 million), Nigeria (+4 million), the US (+4 million) and Bangladesh (+3 million). The actual number of mobile subscribers worldwide was a smaller 4.9 billion, due to some users having more than one Sim.

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Bouygues Telecom posts stable revenue, customer growth in Q2

2015-08-27 09:45:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) French operator Bouygues Telecom reported EUR 1.1 billion of revenue in the second quarter, stable on the year-earlier period, and down by 1 percent to EUR 2.2 billion in the first half. The company's EBITDA rose by EUR 21 million to EUR 323 million in the first half, raising its EBITDA margin by 1.5 percentage points to 17.1 percent. The company recorded a EUR 54 million current operating loss, a EUR 17 million improvement on the first half of 2014 and an operating loss of EUR 109 million, including EUR 55 million in non-current charges essentially related to the rollout of network sharing with Numericable-SFR in the first half. Bouygues Telecom added 160,000 new mobile customers in the second quarter and over 312,000 in the first half to reach 11.4 million mobile customers at the end of June. Postpaid customers, excluding M2M, rose by 293,000 in first half and by 147,000 in the second quarter. The company had 4.1 million LTE customers at the end of June, or 42 percent of the mobile base excluding M2M, up on 19 percent a year earlier. LTE customers consumed 2.4 GB of mobile data per month on average. Bouygues continued to expand in fixed broadband, adding 78,000 new customers in the second quarter and 174,000 in the first half to reach a total of 2.6 million at the end of June. The operator had 23,000 FttH customers on its own network at the end of June, out of 398,000 total customers on very-high speed broadband (30 Mbps+).

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