Tim, the last sentence answers your question. Zenith says it's the same box...........................
<<<<"We have the flexibility to use either
dedicated lines [for Americast and Sky products] or mix and match them on a
single line," Luehrs said.>>>>>>>>>>
Over the next 5 years, Sky is 2.2M boxes.............................
Sky Latam Sees 2.2 Mln Brazil Subscribers In 5 Yrs
Received: December 08, 1997 11:30pm EST From: REUTERS
MIAMI, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Satellite TV venture Sky Latin
America expects to have 2.2 million subscribers in Brazil within
five years, an official with the consortium said Monday.
"Next year it is our intention to close (the year) with over
half a million subscribers in the digital service and we should
end up in the next five years with about 2.2 million
subscribers," Adalberto Vianna, chief executive officer of
Netsat, told a news conference.
Sky Latin America is a $1 billion direct-to-home satellite
TV joint venture between Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation
, Brazil's Globo, Mexico's Grupo Televisa and
Tele-Communications International Inc .
Netsat is a local operating company working with the
consortium in Brazil.
Vianna was speaking at a news conference during the
inauguration of Sky Latin America's new $140 million satellite
transmission center in Miami.
Sky Latin America is competing for the direct-to-home
satellite TV market with Galaxy Latin America, which is headed
by DirecTV International, a unit of Hughes Communications
.
Vianna said the Sky venture would have about 90,000
subscribers in Brazil by the end of this year.
Sky has so far only launched its service in Brazil and
Mexico, though it is due to begin operating in Colombia this
week.
((--Martin Langfield, Miami newsroom 305 374 5013))
REUTERS |
