Virgin Media added another 155,000 TiVo boxes to its subscriber base in the second quarter, bringing the total to 1.7 million.
TiVo now represents 44% of Virgin’s TV base, a marked increase from the 25% at Q2 2012.
The cloud-based Virgin TV Anywhere now has 75 live channels available on PCs and 53 on iOS devices. The same app can also be used to allow viewers to remotely connect to their TV box, manage recordings, etc.
Broadband also continues to be a significant draw for Virgin customers. 2.8 million are now on speeds of 30 Mbps and above, an increase of 1.7 million in the last 12 months. Over 40% of new broadband subscribers taking our 60 Mbps or higher.
Customers on the 100 Mbps service are being upgraded to 120 Mbps and by July 24, approximately half of the cablenet’s 100 Mbps customers had been upgraded with the remaining are on track to be completed by the end of the year.
Virgin Media, now a part of Liberty Global, reported revenues of £1,027 million in the quarter.
RGUs are now back as a metric abs as at June 30, 2013 Virgin declared 12.2 million cable subscription services to 4.9 million unique cable customers, consisting of 3.8 million television, 4.3 million broadband internet and 4.2 million telephony RGUs.
