Both UPC and Telenet has the number of customers with a tripleplay-subscription in the last quarter to see grow. This is evident from the quarterly results of parent company Liberty Global. The number of customers that still use an analogue look, it drops further.
UPC takes now to 21.7 percent of the more than 1.8 million customers a tripleplay plan, an increase of 3.8 percent compared to the third quarter in 2010. At the Belgian Telenet chooses now in 34.7 percent for tripleplay, a growth of 10 per cent. At tripleplay-subscriptions involves a customer telephony, television and internet with one provider. The number of doubleplay-subscribers amounts to at Telenet meanwhile, 27.6 percent, while UPC at 13,9 percent.
UPC reports that almost a million customers watch digital tv via the cable network. The number of analog viewers took it further and would now 864.000 are. Now serving UPC 909.000 subscribers to its internet services. Telenet has 2.2 million subscribers, of which 1.360.000 digital tv watching. The number of internet and telephony customers respectively 1.2 million and 864.000.
For next year, UPC high expectations of his Horizon Project, in which a new set-top box the viewer new possibilities have to offer. So will the Horizon Mediabox tv content can stream to tablets and smartphones, and it is possible to install apps on the device of Samsung. The set-top box must be in the first quarter of 2012.
Telenet especially sees growth opportunities in the mobile market. The kabelaar, as a virtual provider, all 231.200 mobile subscribers has obtained recently a 3g license.