Growth for Canal Plus France

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Growth for Canal Plus France
May 15, 2012


Canal Plus France, with pay TV operations in mainland France, overseas territories and Africa, attracted 211,000 new subscribers during the first quarter, ending March with a total of 12,817,000 customers.

Canal Plus France’s revenues increased slightly to €1.03 billion from €1 billion at the end of March 2011. In France, ARPU increased by €0.50 to €47.6 despite a rise in VAT.

In Poland and Vietnam, the Vivendi-owned operator attracted 81,000 pay TV customers, ending March with 1,720,000 subs.

Revenues from other Canal Plus Group operations, including production arm StudioCanal, resulted in an overall revenue increase of a 3.4% to €1.23 billion.

Vivendi-owned French telco SFR boosted the number of Neufbox Evolution customers by 122,000 in the quarter, taking the total number of subscribers to its next generation service to 711,000. Quad-play customers numbered 1.4 million at the end of March.
 
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