UPC customers increase by 50,000

COMMUNICATIONS provider UPC Ireland saw its total customer numbers grow by nearly 50,000 people last year.

The company, which owns the multi-disciplined communications brand Chorus NTL, saw subscriber numbers, or Total RGUs (revenue generating units) as it terms them, go from 667,000 as of the end of 2008 to 713,300 at the end of last year. The figure takes in digital television customers, analogue television customers, broadband Internet subscribers and those signed up to the company’s telephone service.

The company’s level of Internet subscribers grew by 45% last year and telephone subscriptions grew year-on-year by 116% to over 60,000.