Revenues at Vivendi's Brazilian business GVT grew 47.1% to 1.08bn euros for the first nine months compared to the same period in 2010.

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DirecTV intends to add 3 new satellites over the next few years and could consider acquiring local player GVT in order to offer bundled services.

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