...in its figures for the current quarter. At the end of September, the company had more than three quarters of a million paying HD+ households (761,456 on September 30, 2012). HD+ gained over 127,000 new customers from July to September this year. Growth during these three months exceeded the increase of 121,000 witnessed during the second quarter of the year, setting a new record for the company. Compared with this time last year, HD+ has almost tripled its customer base (267,289 on September 30, 2011).

The number of potential future customers has also risen dramatically. The number of HD+ households taking advantage of the free twelve-month trial period surged to 2,039,175 – a 23 percent increase on the 1,662,235 households the company reported on September 30, 2011. Overall, the number of active HD+ households—a figure including paying households and those in the free trial period—rose by 45 percent to 2,800,631 in the twelve months between September 2011 and September 2012. HD+ is expecting these figures to continue to increase in the fourth quarter. With the potential for new subscribers among those households whose trial periods will end in the coming weeks, HD+ continues to expect to reach one million paying households before 31 December 2012.

Three years after its launch on November 1, 2009, HD+ allows households across Germany to receive 14 free TV channels in HD quality exclusively via the ASTRA satellite system. Customers with an HD+ set-top box can get another 18 HD channels at no extra charge. HD+ is the exclusive provider of the following 14 satellite channels in Germany: RTL HD, Sat.1 HD, ProSieben HD, VOX HD, kabel eins HD, RTL II HD, SUPER RTL HD, N24 HD, TELE 5 HD, SPORT1 HD, DMAX HD, Nickelodeon HD, sixx HD and COMEDY CENTRAL HD.

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