She said it was not the cost of subscriptions -- originally planned for $217 annually -- that was the problem but that the Web site started late in recruiting subscribers.
An important difference is that NHS commissioning budgets are cash-limited but German SHIs can attempt to recruit more subscribers through marketing and offering more or better subscriber services (e.g. health promotion, information about available providers).
Despite this, Mr Peña Nieto has managed to recruit more subscribers.
"Given the choice between higher circulation numbers boosted by bulks and higher profits, we'll take the profits – and continue to recruit paying subscribers to make up for the decline caused by removing the bulks".
Interactive Optimum, which delivers video on demand, digital music and only-on-Cablevision programs, had recruited 80,400 subscribers by the quarter's end.
DirecTV Group blamed much of the drop to a higher-than-expected cost of recruiting new subscribers and upgrading current subscribers to high-definition television and digital video recording.
It will lay off more than 1,000 people involved in recruiting and retaining subscribers.
The promotion offered subscribers who recruited 10 or more players to their fantasy football league the chance to win a date with a Page 3 girl.
But Apple Music's real opportunity it recruiting $10 a month subscribers from the vast majority of people who've never seriously streamed music.
For a company that does nothing but proclaim its newfound devotion to recruiting and retaining new subscribers by creating compelling content, today's departure of programming head James de Castro James de Castro after just a seven-month tenure is jarring indeed.
