Play Now TV Box takes off
August 27, 2019 08.41 Europe/London By Chris Dziadul
The Polish mobile operator Play Communications ended the first half with 17,600 customers to its Play Now Box TV service, which was launched commercially in April.
The company as a whole had operating revenues of PLN3,445 million (€788.3 million) in H1, up 3.6% on the same period last year.
EBITDA amounted to PLN1,214 million (+13%) and net profit PLN467 million (+32.6%).
It had 15,006,000 reported (-0.2%), 9,942,000 (+2.4%) and contract customers, while its active and active contract customer totals stood at 12,717,000 (+2%) and 9,102,000 (+3%) respectively.
The Play Now Box TV service gives Play customers access to over 70 TV channels and thousands of hours of films, serials and programmes.
It includes Netflix and HBO Go.