BSKYB near to 10 million customers
The group's customer base stood at 9.956 million households at the end of September - and it wants to hit the 10 million target, set in 2004, by the end of the year.
The broadcaster also saw a 39 per cent leap in the number of customers who take TV, broadband and telephone services from the group - a total of 2.3 million customers.
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Hide AdBSkyB, which recently rebuffed a proposal by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation to take full control of the UK satellite broadcaster, said it would be opening a new call centre, creating 500 jobs, to support the growth.
The climb in customer numbers came as BSkyB posted a 25 per cent rise in operating profits in the quarter to 255m and a 15 per cent increase in revenues to 1.5bn.