Orange invests in Spain 21% of its revenues in high-speed networks

The telecommunications operators are usually the »ugly duckling» when talking about the development of the digital society.Front the bright glow of companies like Facebook-lately in the eye of the hurricane-, Google, Apple or Twitter, the companies that offer the necessary connection to enjoy these services, appear as little »sexy» .But this new hyperconnected world is not understood without its innovation, investment and also-even if it seems something like »mentoring the bicha»-, without its fees.

Serve as an example Orange Espana , which invested a total of 1,115 million euros in 2017-which represents 21% of its annual income of 5,371 million euros-, destined primarily, to the development of the new 4G high-speed and fiber optic networks.

Thanks to this boost in its deployment plans, the company already has a fourth generation mobile phone coverage over more than 95.7% of the Spanish population and reaches 12 million homes with fiber network in Spain, 24.4% more than the previous year. That coverage is what allows us all to get the most out of the tools that the Internet puts at our disposal.

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Orange's effort is being rewarded by the market in which it operates.Thus, Orange has closed 2017 with 20,045,000 customers, of which 15,893,000 are from mobile telephony (9.3 million of them are 4G) and 4,152,000 fixed broadband (with 2,260,000 fiber optic customers).Likewise, the company already has 626,000 television customers in Spain.

the mobile network with the largest number of customers

At the end of last year, the company had more than 9.3 million 4G customers, 18.2% more than the previous year. Orange's 4G coverage a At the end of 2017 it reaches 95.7% of the Spanish population , including all the provincial capitals.

The Orange network serves 2,970,000 clients of virtual mobile operators with whom it has reached agreements (23.6% more than in the previous year). The mobile network Orange is the one that offers service to a greater number of clients in Spain.

12 million homes with fiber

For its part, Orange's fiber network already reaches 12 million homes, which reaffirms Orange's unquestionable commitment-do we still think it's an "ugly duckling"?-with the deployment of fiber in Spain.Thus, only months after advancing to 2018 its objective of covering 14 million properties with FTTH technology, Orange accelerated its deployment, expanding up to a total of 2,000 million its total investment in fiber in Spain, which will allow it to arrive with this technology to 16 million homes in 2020.

These new plans will allow you to reach more than 70% of all Spanish populations with more than 5,000 inhabitants and 90% of those with more than 10,000 with your fiber optic coverage.

Orange has finished 2017 with a total of 4,152,000 fixed broadband customers , with a growth of 0.5% over the previous year 83.1% of broadband customers fixed already enjoys convergent offers.It highlights the strong progression of the number of Orange fiber clients, which already totals 2,260,000 customers , which represents an increase of 40.4% over the figure corresponding to Previous year, and thanks to the quality of its audiovisual offer, Orange has increased its television client base by 23.4%, reaching 626,000 clients.15% of the fixed broadband client base enjoy Orange's television offer.

More information on Orange's financial results, here.