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Mixed cable and DTH fortunes for Digi

August 14, 2019 09.43 Europe/London By Chris Dziadul

Digi Communications saw its Romanian cable RGU total grow by 9.5% to 3,447,000 in the year to June 30.

At the same time, cable ARPU increased by 3.9% to €5.3. On the other hand, its DTH RGU total fell by 8.3% to 517,000 over the same period, while DTH ARPU rose by 6.3% to €5.1.

Meanwhile, in Hungary the number of cable RGUs grew by 1.8% to 696,000, while cable ARPU fell by 2.4% to €8.

DTH RGUs fell by 7.7% to 276,000 and DTH ARPU by 1.1% to €9.1.

In revenue terms, cable TV revenue in Romania in H1 amounted to €105.6 million, up 12.7% on the same period last year, while DTH revenue fell by 7.2% to €15.5 million.

Total revenues in H1 were, at €367.2 million, 8.8% higher than a year earlier.

In Hungary, cable revenues in H1 grew by 28.7% to €36.1 million, while DTH revenues fell by 8% to €15 million.

Total revenues were 37.3% higher at €110.4 million.

The company’s combined revenues in all the markets it operates in amounted to €575.2 million in H1, up from €486.4 million a year earlier.

Its profit for the first six months of the year was €3.2 million, down from €12.9 million in H1 2018.

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Filed Under: Cable, Central & East Europe, DTH, Newsline, Platforms Tagged With: Digi Communications, Hungary, Romania Edited: 14 August 2019 09:43

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