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FOXTEL
Telstra holds a 50% share in FOXTEL, Australia’s leading subscription television provider.
FOXTEL has grown its customer base 13% over 2004/05 and reached the milestone of one
million customers in June 2005.
Following its successful launch in March 2004, FOXTEL Digital* is now seen in more than
700,000 Australian homes or around 70% of its total customer base, with this number growing
every month.
During 2004/05, FOXTEL Digital* continued to roll out innovative new services and features.
These included launching interactive voting, enhanced interactive weather applications,
additional sports active applications (e.g. for cricket and Super 12 Rugby), closed captioning
on a range of channels to assist the deaf and hearing impaired, as well as the FOXTEL iQ*, a
personal digital recorder. FOXTEL iQ* represents a powerful enhancement to the FOXTEL Digital*
service that delivers customers unprecedented control over their television viewing, enabling
recording and playback with breakthrough simplicity. FOXTEL iQ* customers can record two
broadcast programs at the same time, while simultaneously watching a third previously
recorded program.
In February 2005, FOXTEL began carrying the services of TVN, a thoroughbred racing channel
on its digital cable platform. TVN is the first third party to utilise FOXTEL’s digital open access
regime. Under the FOXTEL Digital* Access Agreement, third parties pay for their use of FOXTEL’s
transmission service, including FOXTEL’s cable set top boxes. Access users are responsible for
the content and marketing of their channels and the management and billing of their own
customer bases.
# Excludes Optus & TransACT Wholesale Subscribers
20
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS June 2005 June 2004 % Change
Telstra FOXTEL bundling subscribers (in thousands) 280 235 19.1
Total subscribers#(in thousands) 1,023 904 13.2
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OVER
1
MILLION
FOXTEL CUSTOMERS