HAMPSHIRE based cable television operator NTL said it had made a fast start after emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States four months ago.
The New York-listed group, based at Hook, with operations centred in south Hampshire, put itself firmly on the road to recovery with its home division - which supplies domestic customers - returning to growth in the first three months of this year.
While the division's revenues were flat at £362.1m, customer numbers rose by a net figure of 27,100 after declining for five quarters in a row. NTL now has 2.7 million domestic customers.
The net figure includes a total of 116,100 new customers offset by the loss of 89,000 others but this was NTL's lowest disconnection rate since the end of 2000.
Chief executive Barclay Knapp said: "Our home division is growing again and the customer service improvements we have been making since last year have dramatically reduced our annualised churn rate.''
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