Sky squeezes even more money from customers, gets fewer new ones
£550 pa? Who said satellite dishes were for poor people
Evaluating the cost of a DDoS attack  BSkyB attracted fewer new
subscribers to its TV, broadband and phone products in its last
quarter even though the company enjoyed a healthy increase in
sales.  The broadcaster, which is 39 per cent owned by Rupert
Murdoch's News Corp and lost its chairman James Murdoch in
April, said its total subscriber base rose by 48,000 during the
quarter ended 30 September.  But growth, which is always
welcomed by the City, has continued to slow. In the same quarter
a year earlier, 77,000 peeps signed up to the firm's services,
and in 2010, 96,000 customers joined BSkyB.  However, the
company had plenty to be pleased about this morning when it
reported that revenue had climbed 4 per cent to £1.7bn during
the quarter, while pre-tax profit hit £291m - up from £274m for
the same period in 2011.  BSkyB smashed through the 4 million
broadband userbase in its previous