There were an estimated 16.1 million IPTV subscribers worldwide at the end of 1Q08. More than half (estimated 8.4 million) were in EMEA, mainly the Western Europe. Asia Pacific has 5.6 million or 35% of the worldwide IPTV subscriber base. North America is lagging behind a little. However AT&T and Verizon (with its hybrid TV offering) in the US are likely to change that over the next two years.

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• Added 43,931 new subscribers during 1Q08. At the end of March 2008, the total Belgacom IPTV subscriber base was 349,250
• IPTV ARPU: EUR 17.4 compared to EUR 13.4 a year ago
• Added 9k new VoIP subscribers during 1Q08. At the end of March 2008, the total VoIP subscribers 16k
• During the quarter Belgacom and Twentieth Century Fox reached an agreement to make Fox films available on demand via Belgacom TV, Belgacom’s IPTV service

• 2 million VoIP subscribers at the end of 1Q08.

• 21CN update: 58% of UK national core infrastructure built

• 214k IPTV subscribers at the end of 1Q08. Added 94k subscribers during 1Q08. Latest May08 figures released: 250k subscribers.

• 68% of new IPTV subscribers chose a subscription package at a point of sale. Average number of views per subscriber, per month: 29 views

554k IPTV subscribers as of end 1Q08. Added 43k subscribers during 1Q08

IPTV penetration rate is 11.46% of the broadband subscribers

Telefonica also has over 1.2 million pay TV subscribers in Latin America. Majority are non-IPTV subscribers. In Czech Repulic I think all the 87k pay TV subs are on IPTV

• Telecom Italia ended 1Q08 with 136k IPTV subscribers, an increase of 56 thousand in the quarter.
• 1.5 million VoIP subscribers as of end 1Q08, which represents 23% penetration into retail broadband access lines.

154k IPTV subscribers as of end 1Q08

Added 38,000 IPTV subscribers in 1Q08

Deutsche Telekom had dropped the price of its starter package by 17 percent in March 2008

Telco to invest in improved customer support for IPTV

VSDL roll out in 50 cities continues

AT&T: 379k IPTV subscribers, up 148k from previous quarter. Addressable market 9 million homes

Verizon: 1.2 million IPTV subscribers, up 263k from previous quarter. Addressable market 82% of 7.9 million homes passed

• 4.65 million VoBB subscribers in France as of end 1Q08. Added 547k subscribers during 1Q08

• 722k VoBB customers outside France. Poland: 164k VoIP subscribers, other European countries 558k

•VoIP represented 61% of the number of ADSL subscribers and IPTV represented 17%

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• 435k IPTV subscribers. Net additions during the quarter: 41k. Number of subscribers increased 10% q-o-q

• “1.3% Local revenue decrease and the 4.4% Domestic Long Distance revenue decrease, mainly due to mobile and VoIP substitution”.

• 4.28m broadband subscribers (including ADSL and FTTB) at the end of the 1Q08. 3.6m ADSL subscribers, 634.5 thousand FTTX subscribers, which is up 97.7 thousand in the quarter.