Subscribers to Sky digital up by 16%

Sky digital has added just under 30,000 subscribers to its platform in the six months to December 2003, the company said today…

Sky digital has added just under 30,000 subscribers to its platform in the six months to December 2003, the company said today.

The company said that by year end it had 315,000 customers in 24 per cent of Irish homes signed up to its digital service.

Sky digital launched in 1998. The company says its Sky channels are available to more than 895,000 households through cable and or mmds and Sky digital.

The number of households is based on a Nielsen Establishment Survey 2003 that there are 1,343,000 households in the State.