With the publication of its figures for the first six months of 2008, France Telecom has reported strong growth of its IPTV customer base. The company had a total of 1.54 million subscribers in Europe at June 30, 2008, or 76% more than 872,000 one year earlier.
In France, the company had 1.389 million IPTV subscribers, a 65.9% increase from a year ago, with VOD more than doubling to 2.182 million paid downloads in the first half of 2008, compared with 907,000 in the first half of 2007.