The Russian incumbent Rostelecom ended the third quarter with 10.7 million pay-TV subscribers, or 4% more than in the same period last year.
Of these, over half (5.9 million), opted for IPTV services, up 8% on a year earlier.
Rostelecom also had a total of 13.4 million internet subscribers (+3%), of whom 12.3 million (+3%) were B2C broadband.
Despite growth in its pay-TV subscriber total, pay-TV ARPU in Q3 was 1% lower than a year earlier at R235 (€2.6), while that for IPTV fell by 4% to R298.
Rostelecom as a whole had revenues of R134,988 million (+13%) in Q3.
Its OIBDA was R53,677 million (+17%) and net income R11,988 million (+31%).
