Telefonica Spain Adds 23K IPTV Subscribers in 4Q08

Telefonica added 22,943 IPTV subscribers in Spain in 4Q08 ending the year with 612,494. The company stated that this gives it 14 percent of the pay TV market in Spain. Telefonica's O2 subsidiary in Czechoslovakia added 6,435 IPTV subscribers in 4Q08, ending the year with 114,496 subscribers.



Things have picked up a bit for Telefonica in 4Q08, which makes it one of the IPTV leaders in Europe.

Telefonica Spain Adds 13K IPTV Subscribers in 3Q08

Telefonica added 13,000 IPTV subscribers in 3Q08, giving it 589,600 IPTV subscribers at the end of the quarter. Its O2 operation in the Czech Republic grew nearly as much, 10,200 IPTV subscribers, leaving it 108,100 subscribers at the end of the quarter.

Telefonica's total pay TV base grew by 130,000 subscribers to more than 2.1 million at the end of the quarter. The company has a significant satellite TV offering in South America, that accounts for nearly all of the increase. Its pay TV offering in Brazil is successful with 436,100 subscribers at the end of the quarter.

Telefonica does plan to introduce HDTV before the end of 2008.

Telefonica's IPTV business in Spain has hit a real flat spopt with a significant decrease in its quarterly adds over the last four quarters. It will have to take a different approach to get sales moving again. HD should help.

I believe that Telefonica is offering an IPTV service in Brazil, but it has not split out the IPTV vs. the satellite numbers.

Telefonica Adds 22.6K IPTV Subscribers in 2Q08

Telefonica ended 2Q08 with 576,558 IPTV customers, and increase of 22.6 thousand over the quarter. This was an increase of 28 percent year over year.

Telefonica's O2 operation in the Czech Republic ended 2Q08 with 97.9 thousand IPTV subscribers, an increase of 12.7 thousand in the quarter.

Telefonica's IPTV services are growing at a modest rate compared to the other services in Europe. It seems that the company is not putting its priority in this area.

O2 Ends 3Q07 with 53K IPTV Subscribers

Telefonica's Czech subsidiary O2 ended 3Q07 with 53 thousand IPTV subscribers, a net gain of 16,000 in the quarter. O2 TV recently began broadcasting live O2 Extraliga hockey matches, and expanded the number of films offered in the Videotéka, O2’s virtual video rental shop, through deals with Warner Brothers and Disney.This was an increase of 50 thousand subscribers in the last 12 months and 37 thousand since the beginning of the year. O2 also ended 3Q07 with 545 thousand broadband subscribers.

O2 is seeing steady growth in its IPTV service. Its penetration of its broadband based is still low, so its IPTV service should continue to see good growth.