11. At Tele-Communications Inc., price increases and new subscribers will help boost cash flow. 12. Because Liberty has interests in a variety of programming services, the company can expand its menu of offerings to the new subscribers. 13. Both carriers also make new subscribers sign contracts that clearly state all the conditions. 14. A busy telephone signal often greeted new subscribers trying to use these services. 15. A few thousand are hooked up to the new digital subscriber lines, the technology whose development the consortium wants to shape and accelerate. 16. A fifth of new subscribers already had handsets, suggesting they either bought them at other retailers or migrated from other operators. 17. Adding new subscribers has proved a tough challenge. 18. Broad bandwidth can improve the speed and performance of online services, plus cable television offers the potential for millions of new AOL subscribers. 19. BSkyB has also lost money, mainly because it has been giving away set-top boxes to attract new subscribers. 20. But he would not comment on the number of new subscribers MSN had gained since its offer last month. |
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