Digital Sky closed the year 2008 with something more about 9,1 million subscribers, the highest number obtained until now by the British platform that expresses his widest channels offer across the orbital position of 28,2nd East of the satellites of SES Astra.

The immense variety in the television subject-matters joined to a system of impassable conditional access, since that of NDS is Videoguard, they do that Sky Digital keeps on being increasingly a leader in what atañe to the payment television in the whole Europe, where other platforms have turned out to be much harmed by the piracy, turning out to be forced to change of encriptación.

Sky Digital is followed much of far by the French CanalSat (Astra - 19,2nd East) with 5,2 million subscribers and with an important forecast to the rise in the next months after there is completed the last step of the absorption of TPS, which in other times was his big competitor.

Sky Italy keeps on gaining followers and with 4,6 million subscribers it closed last year 2008. Behind the difficult starter times stayed with the merger between Telepiù and Stream. The German Premiere with 2,5 million subscribers tries to mend the flight and wants to forget last years marked by the piretería of his sign of encriptación and by a few "inflated" and equivocal information in the accounts of the operator that endured the resignation of his responsible maxima.

The Digital Spaniard + fills the fifth vacancy in the ránking of the satellite platforms of Europe closing the previous exercise with 2 million subscribers, codes one completely stabilized and in expectation of better times that can come this 2009 with his sale.


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(SatCesc, 05/01/09)