Orange group’s revenues of €10.3 billion in Q1 were 0.5% higher than in the corresponding period last year, driven primarily by its performance in Africa and the Middle East.
However, in Europe Poland performed particularly well, with revenue growth of 4.1%.
In its home market France, revenues in Q1 amounted to €4.4 billion, down 0.2% on a year earlier. Fibre continued to perform well, with 385,000 net additions in Q1. Over the year, the company gained 1.4 million new FTTH customers, up 38.9%. Meanwhile, then number of IPTV and DTH customers rose from 7,308,000 to 7,712,000 in the year to March 31. Orange notes that its revenues were particularly hard hit in Spain, down 10.2% year-on-year, principally due to repricing its customer base in H2 2020. At the same time, the number of IPTV and DTH customers rose from 698,000 to 703,000.
In Poland, the number of IPTV and DTH customers stood at 1,017,000 as of March 31, up from 994,000 a year earlier, while the number of connectable FTTH homes rose from 4,393,000 to 5,714,000.
Meanwhile, in the three other CEE markets Orange is present in (Romania, Slovakia and Moldova), it ended Q1 with 738,000 IPTV and DTH customers, down from 747,000 a year earlier. Its fixed broadband total rose in all three countries, and in total from 606,000 to 719,000.
Elsewhere in Europe, the number of IPTV and DTH customers in Belgium and Luxembourg rose from 245,00 to 267,000 in the year to March 31.