Kabel BW records 29% rise in broadband, telephony users

German cable operator Kabel BW has announced its broadband internet and telephony customer base totalled 624,000 at the end of September 2010, an increase of 29% compared to the 483,000 reported a year earlier. The Baden-Wurttemberg-based company said 27% of its 2.3 million cable customers now subscribe to internet and telephony services, which it claims is the highest proportion of any German cable network operator. Kabel BW witnessed a 39% year-on-year increase in pay-TV revenue generating units (RGUs) to 259,000 at 30 September 2010. Thanks to ongoing network expansion and modernisation efforts, Kabel BW said that 99% of the 3.6 million households in Baden-Wurttemberg passed by its cable network can now subscribe to its ‘Clever Kabel’ triple-play packages.