Orange revenues down, subs up
April 30, 2010
Orange's pay-TV services reaching 3.39 million subscribers across all markets by the end of March, up from 3.217 million at the end of 2009 and up 34 per cent year-on-year.
Orange sports and Orange cinema series channels having a combined total of 713,000 customers by the end of the period (up from 363,000 one year previously) whilst VOD generated 2.7 million pay-per-view uses in France in the first three months of this year, up 53 per cent from last year.
In Poland, the company more than doubled its pay-TV customer base in the twelve months to last March to reach 417,000 customers.
Total revenues across all operations reached E10.96 billion for the first quarter of this year, down 2.7 per cent year-on-year, while EBITDA fell 5.5 per cent by the same comparison to reach E3.764 billion.