Telecom operator Digi invested 88 million euros in Spain in the first quarter of 2025. This figure has been earmarked for its plan to roll out state-of-the-art ultrafast fibre optic networks, which now serve 12.5 million homes.

The Romanian company has also invested part of this amount in implementing its plan to become a mobile operator with its own network. To achieve this, it has acquired 60 MHz of radio spectrum on the secondary market, which is expected to be deployed in the second half of the year.

Direct employment generation
In its latest quarterly report, which discloses its financial results, Digi also emphasises its commitment to employment. The company, which is active throughout the entire value chain and generates its own employment, offers its employees stability and career plans. This meant that at the end of the first quarter of the year it was already the operator with the second largest number of direct employees in Spain, with over 9,000 professionals under contract.

Digi’s workforce ranges from infrastructure staff for deploying its own fibre network to the professionals who serve the public at its call centres. In March, it opened the second of these centres in Seville, where it will create more than 130 jobs over the next few months, in addition to the one it operates in Madrid.

Financial results
Digi belongs to the Romanian Digi Communications group, which is one of the fastest growing operators in Europe. It currently has a presence in Romania, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Belgium, and offers fixed and mobile telephony, internet, cable and satellite TV services, as well as electricity services.

In the first quarter of 2025, Digi had a turnover of over 217 million euros, an increase of 22% compared to the same period last year. It was the company’s best quarter to date, with over 164,000 net additions of fibre customers and more than 279,000 net new customers, 7% more than in 2024. In total, it added over 630,000 new customers in the first three months of the year.

Digi now has over 9 million customers in Spain, 29% more than a year ago. Of these, over 6.23 million are mobile customers, and more than 2.11 million are fibre customers. Gross profit in the first quarter of 2025 was above 41 million euros and 3% higher than in the first three months of 2024.

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