The nation’s three largest telephone companies ended 1Q 09 with 7.65 million video households, 46% (3.55 million) of which were connected to fiber-to-the-home or fiber-to-the-node services. That brings the total percentage of telco customers receiving satellite TV service through RBOC-DirecTV partnerships to 53.6%, down from 70.9% in 1Q 08.

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