BSkyB adds 6,000 subscribers to its digital service in first quarter

BSKYB has added approximately 6,000 new subscribers to its digital television customer base in Ireland during the first quarter of its financial year — the three-month period until the end of September.

Total new customer numbers across Ireland and Britain grew by 8% or 94,000 people, to 9.536 million. As part of that, take-up of the group’s Sky+HD (high definition) product attracted another 287,000 customers, which was a three-fold increase on the same period of Sky’s last financial year.

Of that last figure, around 17,200 customers can be attributed to the Irish market.