Digital dividends

This was a 67.6-percent increase over the same period of last year. The firm's revenues increased during the first half of 2008 to reach zł.277.29 million, marking y/y growth of 60.2 percent.

During this period, the total number of Cyfrowy Polsat subscribers grew by 119,000, a result on par with that of H1 2007. The firm currently has around 2.4 million customers. "Our large customer group is a stable basis for Cyfrowy Polsat's good results," Dominik Libicki, the president of Cyfrowy Polsat, told Reuters.

In March, the company started bundling its services together with decoders of its own production, resulting in a reduction of per-subscriber costs. By the end of H1, some 30 percent of all decoders which Cyfrowy Polsat sold were own-brand.

The company has also decided to pay out dividends. Around zł.37.6 million of the firm's 2007 net profit will be paid out, which amounts to around zł.0.14 per share.