iesy Repository GmbH - Irish Stock Exchange

Operational Data (unaudited)
Year ended December 31, 2003 Three months ended March 31,
(including
eleven months
of operations)
(including
aggregated twelve
months of operations)
108
Year ended
December 31,
2004 2004 2005
Revenues (€m, except
percentages)
Basic cable
Basic cable subscriber
sales 330.9 359.5 353.9 88.6 86.8
Basic cable installation
fees 1.9 2.1 5.6 1.6 1.0
Total basic cable sales 332.8 361.6 359.5 90.2 87.7
% revenues 82.3% 82.5% 84.8% 87.6% 84.8%
Premium cable
Total premium cable
sales (1) N/A N/A 2.7 0.4 1.5
% revenues N/A N/A 0.6% 0.4% 1.4%
Carriage fees
Total carriage fees sales 32.2 35.2 33.2 8.5 8.7
% revenues 8.0% 8.0% 7.8% 8.3% 8.4%
Telephony
Total telephony sales 1.0 1.1 1.1 0.3 0.5
% revenues 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.5%
High speed Internet
Total high speed
Internet sales (2) 3.6 3.8 5.3 1.2 1.6
% revenues 0.9% 0.9% 1.2% 1.1% 1.6%
Own work capitalized as fixed
assets 5.1 6.3 6.0 1.5 1.3
Other 29.2 30.1 16.4 1.0 2.1
Total revenues 404.2 438.2 424.1 103.0 103.5
Subscriber information (as of
period end in ‘000s, except
percentages)
Homes passed (3) 6,544 N/A 6,544 6,544 6,544
Total basic cable
subscribers (4)(5) 4,048 N/A 4,096 4,128 4,021
% penetration 62% N/A 63% 63% 63%
Premium cable television
subscribers 18 N/A 43 26 60
Telephony 3 N/A 5 10 19
High speed Internet 10 N/A 16 3 7
Total RGUs (6) 4,079 N/A 4,160 4,167 4,107
Basic cable ARPU (€) (4)(7) 7.52 N/A 7.36 7.13 7.21
(1) Includes premium cable installation fees.
(2) Includes high speed Internet subscription and installation fees.
(3) ish calculates homes passed based on ish’s estimate of the number of potential subscribers who are passed by its
network and to whom ish can offer its cable television services.
(4) Does not include 135,000 Tele Columbus subscribers as of December 31, 2003, which were added to ish’s subscriber
number in 2004, when its contract with Tele Columbus was renegotiated.
(5) The table below presents ish’s basic cable subscriber information broken down by market segment: