Digi is set to end 2023 as the best year in Spanish history. This is evidenced by the growth figures in the number of clients and income. Not only this, the company is also the favorite to obtain the remedies imposed by Brussels to approve the operation between Orange and MásMóvil to create a new company and consolidate in the Spanish market.

The Romanian operator entered the national market 15 years ago. According to the company itself, its good performance is due to high-quality employment, the desire not to raise prices and the quality of service. In total more than 7,000 direct employees They enable Digi to become the fifth largest telecommunications company in Spain by number of customers.

The company, which has more than 7,000 employees and more than 4,000 sales points in Spain, is present in Romania, where it offers cable and satellite television, as well as electricity services; Portugal, Italy and Belgium.

Price played a decisive role in the company becoming the fifth most important telecommunications company in Spain. Not raising rates or offering more services was her philosophy. A practice that, on the other hand, was criticized by the large operators, who insisted that they were the ones who had to invest in the networks, while budgetlike Digi, can benefit from them, since Telefonica, Orange or Vodafone are obliged to hand them over at the request of the National Markets and Competition Commission.

However, Digi claims to have invested more than €1 billion in rolling out the fastest fiber network in Spain, reaching more than 6.5 million homes in the country’s main urban centres.

Be that as it may, the reality is that Digi already has 6.1 million customers in its portfolio. 2023 was once again a great year for the Romanian company as it surpassed the end of November as reported this week. million ports. This is 27% more than in the same period last year.

In November, the company added more than 98,100 fixed and mobile telephony ports. Of these lines, more than 45,200 correspond to pure mobile telephony ports, and more than 14,400 correspond to pure fixed telephony ports.

Thus, according to the latest data published by the company corresponding to the third quarter of 2023, the operator already has more than 4.45 million mobile customers, more than 1.24 million fiber customers and more than 402,000 fixed line customers.

In terms of business results, the first nine months of 2023 ended with revenue. 466 million euroswhich is 30.5% more than the €357.1 million it recorded in the same period in 2021, driven by its commercial development.

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Another reason why Digi may be in the spotlight is to obtain legal remedies resulting from the merger of Orange and MásMóvil. As the Bloombergthe operator has entered into a preliminary agreement to acquire the assets that Orange and MásMóvil will have to sell in order to obtain European Commission approval for their merger in Spain. telecommunications company Romania will be able to invest about 2 billion euros over seven years.

This preliminary non-binding agreement could pave the way for Brussels to give the green light to the merger of Orange and MásMóvil, an operation worth around 18.6 billion euros.