Bell Video now as 1.84 million subscribers

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Hugh

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From 3Q financial results published today

The number of subscribers to Bell's satellite and VDSL television service grew by 7,000 to 1,838,000.

The company did not say how many were ExpressVu and how many were VDSL but presumably the vast majority is ExpressVu.

The average video subscriber now spends $65 a month with the company.
 
They specifically mention in their results more success in MDUs, so I'm not sure we should dismiss out of hand that a decent portion of that increase could be on the VDSL platform.
 
Let me clarify. I mean that the vast majority of the 1.8 million are DTH customers.

The 7,000 is a net gain. Churn is 1.4% per month so they likely lost 76,000 subs and gained 83,000. Its quite possible that VDSL made up a significant percentage of the 83,000 or say gains.
 
I agree that the Apartment dwellers have made a big impact this quater. There have been many dozens of Highrise buildings completed with a "Backbone" system this year.

It would be interesting to see a breakdown of the figures for the 3 sub-divisions, DTH, VDSL and iPTV.

Barter, are you making a reference to the fact that the card swap will slow piracy and cause an increase in subscribers.?
 
I wouldn't get too excited - only 8000 net. If I recall past figures this is pretty abysmal growth. I think over the last two years the net growth has been almost nil. I don't think VDSL is doing any growth - there is no HD service on the platform. If anything the stacked solution (dish on the roof of the MDU) is probably helping now. Once they start gaining traction with fiber buildouts to new MDUs the net gain numbers should improve next year.
 
Yes, that what happened in 2005.
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-12485704_ITM
BCE reports 2005 year-end and fourth quarter results



Although there were no FTA before the last swap, so all that was required was a new N2 smartcard for your Bell receiver and a make phone call and you were good to go. Bell even offered hackers/theives a new card for $69 to start a legit account.
 
To summarize, by the end of May 2005 ~90% of the Nagravision 2 cards were sent out.
During the following three months the new security system was implemented and hacked.

And because of these three months BeV added over 200,000 new customers?

If this is true, BTV will have over 2 million customers before spring if Nagra3 survives this year...
 
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