Italian free-to-air platform TivùSat says it ended May with over 1,453,213 active smart cards.
This gives the Eutelsat-delivered platform a growth rate of some 1,200 cards per day.
Owned jointly by Rai, Mediaset, TI Media, FRT and Aeranti-Corallo, around 4.90% of Italian householders now take TivùSat.
61 television channels and 40 radio channels can be received through an increasing number of products. These include 70 IDTVs including models from LG, Sony and Samsung.