The first three months of this year were a particularly successful period for the Polish DTH platform n and its sister service Telewizja na karte (TNK).
Results published by TVN show that n ended the quarter with 724,000 active post-paid subscribers, an increase of 180,000, or 33%, year-on-year. There were 32,000 net additions in Q1 2010 alone, while 304,000 new post-paid subscribers were secured since March 2009.
The pre-pay TNK meanwhile saw its recharged customer base increase by 2.4 times to 307,000 in the 12 months to March 31 this year and its overall customer base grow to 524,000. All told, 344,000 new pre-paid cards were sold since March 2009.
The ARPU for n in Q1 2010 amounted to PLN58.2 (€14.6) and that for TNK PLN9.9.