Ziggo Q4 sales up 2.8%, still in talks with Liberty
Dutch cable operator Ziggo reported fourth-quarter sales of EUR 394 million, up 2.8 percent from a year earlier. Excluding the acquisition of Esprit Telecom, sales rose 1.7 percent. EBITDA increased 2.1 percent to EUR 223 million, and the net profit came in at EUR 79 million. Ziggo lost 22,000 customers in the quarter for a total 2.66 million at year-end. In the consumer market, the company added 5,000 digital TV subscribers, 22,000 broadband customers and 12,000 telephony clients. It has now in total 2.25