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Digi Communications N.V. reports a solid Q1 2024 with revenues up 12% YoY

BUCHAREST, Romania, 15-May-2024 — /EPR FINANCIAL NEWS/ — Digi Communications N.V. (“Digi” or the “Company”), one of the leading European telecommunications companies, listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, informs the shareholders and investors that the Q1 2024 Financial Results are available on the Company’s website: https://www.digi-communications.ro/en/investor-relations/shares/financial-results-shares/quarterly-reports-shares  

The Company reports consolidated revenues in the first quarter of 2024 (including revenues and other income) of EUR 446.7 million, a 12% increase versus Q1 2023. The adjusted EBITDA for Q1 2024 amounted to EUR 163.1 million (+21.9% YoY), and adjusted EBITDA excluding the IFRS 16 impact was EUR 139.9 million (+23.4% YoY). This performance aligns with the management’s projections for 2024, underpinned by solid growth in strategic markets.

  • Digi Communications consolidated revenues and other income increased 12% year-on-year in Q1 2024, reaching EUR 446.7 million.
  • An adjusted EBITDA (excluding IFRS 16 impacts) of EUR 139.9 million, marking a 23.4% rise due to an expanding customer base across Romania, Spain, and Italy.
  • A significant rise in revenue-generating units (RGUs) across all three markets, approaching the historic milestone of 25 million RGUs – a 14.3% increase year-over-year (YoY) – spanning mobile, fixed internet, Pay TV, and fixed telephony services.

Serghei Bulgac, CEO of Digi Communications, stated: “Following a year of remarkable expansion in 2023, we are thrilled to report a robust first quarter of 2024. Our key markets, Romania and Spain, have maintained strong performance and allowed us to reach a historical milestone of 25 million clients served, across all three markets of activity. This important growth from the first three months of the year was driven by our mobile segment in Spain, which grew by 23.6%, reaching 5 million customers. In parallel, Spain’s broadband segment experienced accelerated growth of 56.7%, now serving 1.5 million users. Romanian mobile users exceeded 6 million with an increase of 16.3% year on year. These figures indicate another year of anticipated growth, aligning with our expectations and capability to meet evolving consumer needs in a competitive landscape. We are committed to continue to deliver superior quality at affordable prices across vibrant European markets, including established regions and new markets in Belgium and Portugal, where we are gearing up for the service launch.”

In Q1 2024, Digi Communications continued its growth trajectory across all service portfolios, registering a 14.3% YoY increase, approaching 25 million RGUs across Romania, Spain, and Italy. The company’s diverse offerings include mobile and fixed-line telephony, broadband data services, and Pay TV. In Romania, Digi operates a state-of-the-art fibre optic network for fixed and mobile telecommunication, broadband and entertainment solutions. In Spain, Digi provides mobile, broadband, and fixed-line services, and in Italy, the Group offers exclusively mobile services.

The mobile division delivers the most revenue-generating user agreements (RGUs) within the Group, accounting for 46.4% of the overall RGUs in the three markets. Maintaining its momentum from past quarters, in Q1 2024, the mobile segment saw the RGUs climb to 11.5 million, a 19.5% YoY increase, covering mobile telephony clients across Romania, Spain, and Italy.

In Romania, the mobile service segment reached 6 million RGUs in Q1 2024, an evolution of 16.3% compared to Q1 2023. Fixed internet services registered an increase of 7.8% YoY in Q1 2024, up to 4.7 million RGUs, while the Pay-TV services (cable and satellite) segment increased by 3.8% compared to Q1 2023, up to 5.7 million RGUs. Adding the fixed-line telephony, the total number of RGUs in the Romanian market amounted to 17.3 million customers as of the end of Q1 2024, a 8.5% YoY increase.

Spanish operations continued to grow well into Q1 2024, with the number of users of fixed services, internet, and mobile telephony increasing by 31.5% compared to Q1 2023 to 7 million RGUs. Mobile users increased by 23.6% to 5 million RGUs, while broadband users increased by 56.7% to 1.5 million.

In Italy, mobile users increased by 18.2% YoY, reaching 435K RGUs as of the end of Q1 2024.

Looking ahead, Digi’s strategic initiatives in Portugal and Belgium are paving the way for future expansions. Digi’s local subsidiaries are preparing to launch commercial services in these two markets in 2024.

In April 2024, Digi Spain announced the sale of its FTTH network across 12 provinces to Sota Investments Spain OpCo, S.L.U., managed by a consortium including Macquarie Capital, abrdn, and Arjun Infrastructure Partners. Valued at up to 750 million euros, this sale will enhance Digi Spain’s liquidity and enable further investment in network expansion. The transaction, reaching approximately 4.25 million homes with plans to expand to 6 million homes within three years, awaits FDI clearance and merger control approval.

About Digi Communications N.V.

We are an European leader in geographically-focused telecommunication solutions, based on the number of revenue generating units (“RGUs”) and a leading provider of telecommunication services in Romania and Spain, with a presence also in Italy, Portugal and Belgium.

SOURCE: EuropaWire

Digi Communications N.V. EGM appointed KPMG N.V. as statutory auditor for FY 2021

BUCHAREST, Romania, 4-Nov-2021— /EuropaWire/ — Digi Communications N.V. (The Company) would like to inform the market and its investors that today, Thursday, 4 November 2021, at 12:00 PM CET, at the offices of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Strawinskylaan 10, 1077 XZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands, took place the Company’s extraordinary general meeting (the EGM) with respect to which the Company informed its shareholders and the market through the Convocation notice released on 23 September 2021 (the Convocation Notice).

The EGM was attended by shareholders representing 74.61% of the total number of shares with voting rights, respectively 70,843,023 shares.

Following the debates, the EGM has adopted the following decision regarding the point included on the agenda, in accordance with the Convocation Notice:

  • Appointment of Statutory Auditor – KPMG N.V. as statutory auditor for the 2021 financial year.

The voting results of the EGM, as well as other relevant information on the EGM and the related documents are available on the Company’s website at the section dedicated to the EGM: digi-communications.ro/en/corporate/general-share-holders/digi-communications-n-v-egm-2021

SOURCE: EuropaWire

Digi Communications NV 1H-2020 Financial Results now available

BUCHAREST, Romania, 14-Aug-2020 — /EPR FINANCIAL NEWS/ — Digi Communications N.V. (“Digi” or the “Company”) announces that H1 2020 financial results are available on the Company’s website.

For details, please see:

https://www.digi-communications.ro/en/investor-relations/shares/financial-results-shares

SOURCE: EuropaWire

Digi Communications N.V. will host conference call on 14 August 2020 to discuss H1 2020 financial results

BUCHAREST, Romania, 7-Aug-2020 — /EPR FINANCIAL NEWS/ — Digi Communications N.V. (“Digi” or the “Company”) announces that on 14 August 2020 (at 14:00 UK time / 16:00 EEST – Romania local time) it will host a conference call to discuss the H1 2020 financial results.

To participate please follow the instructions from our website: https://www.digi-communications.ro/en/investor-relations/shares/financial-calendar and pre-register for the call. The deadline for pre-registration is until 12:00 UK time/ 14:00 EEST (Romania local time) on 14 August 2020.

A webcast of the call and the presentation materials will be available on our websites and the webcast will be archived for 30 days: www.digi-communications.ro

SOURCE: EuropaWire

Digi Communications N.V.: Independent Limited Assurance Report issued on 30 Jul 2020 now available on BVB, ASF and Dutch AFM

BUCHAREST, Romania, 30-Jul-2020 — /EPR FINANCIAL NEWS/ — Digi Communications N.V. (“Digi” or the “Company”) announces that on July 30, 2020, the Independent Limited Assurance Report issued by the external auditor of the Company on 30 July 2020 regarding the information included in the current reports issued by the Company under Law 24/2017 (Article 82) and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 was made publicly available on the Romanian Stock Exchange (“BVB”) and the Company’s website, while also being available with the Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority (“ASF”) and the Dutch Authority for Financial Markets (“AFM”).

For details regarding the reports, please access the official websites designated of Digi: www.digi-communications.ro (Investor Relations Section).

SOURCE: EuropaWire

Digi Communications NV Non-Executive Director exercised his stock options

The exercise is pursuant to the decision of the Company’s general meeting of shareholders dated 2 May 2018 and in accordance with the stock option plan approved at the level of the Company in 2017, as amended by the general meeting of shareholders dated 2 May 2018

BUCHAREST, Romania, 3-Jun-2020 — /EPR FINANCIAL NEWS/ — Digi Communications NV (The Company) would like to inform the market and its investors that on 3 June 2020 Mr. Marius Catalin Vărzaru, Non-Executive Director and Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the Company, has exercised his stock options, which have vested in accordance with the provisions of the Company’s stock option plan and which were granted pursuant to the decision of the Company’s general meeting of shareholders dated 2 May 2018 and in relation to which the above mentioned person and the Company have concluded a stock option agreement on 18 May 2018. In accordance with this stock option plan, Mr. Marius Catalin Vărzaru was granted 50,000 shares.

In accordance with the provisions of article 19 para. (1) of the Market Abuse Regulation, on 3 June 2020, Mr. Marius Cătălin Vărzaru, as person discharging managerial responsibilities in connection with the Company, has notified the Company and the Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority in connection with the exercise of the stock options.

For details regarding the reports, please access the official websites designated of Digi: www.digi-communications.ro (Investor Relations Section).

SOURCE: EuropaWire

Digi Communications N.V. grants stock options to certain employees and managers of its Romanian Subsidiary

BUCHAREST, Romania, 19-May-2020 — /EPR FINANCIAL NEWS/ — Digi Communications N.V. (The Company) would like to inform the market and its investors that the Board of Directors of the Company has approved the grant of stock options for the benefit of certain employees and managers of RCS&RDS S.A., its Romanian subsidiary and of DIGISOFT IT SRL, a subsidiary of RCS&RDS S.A. The options granted are for a number of 185,500 Class B shares. The vesting of such options is conditional upon fulfillment of several performance criteria, with the vesting period being a minimum of 1 year.

SOURCE: EuropaWire

Digi Communications NV Executive Directors exercised their stock options

The exercise is pursuant to the decision of the Company’s general meeting of shareholders dated 2 May 2018 and in accordance with the stock option plan approved at the level of the Company in 2017, as amended by the general meeting of shareholders dated 2 May 2018

BUCHAREST, Romania, 15-May-2020 — /EPR FINANCIAL NEWS/ — Digi Communications NV (The Company) would like to inform the market and its investors that on 15 May 2020, Mr. Serghei Bulgac, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of the Company and Mr. Valentin Popoviciu, Executive Director of the Company, have exercised their stock options, which have vested in accordance with the provisions of the Company’s stock option plan and which were granted pursuant to the decision of the Company’s general meeting of shareholders dated 2 May 2018 and in relation to which the abovementioned persons and the Company have concluded stock option agreements on 16 May 2018, respectively on 18 May 2018. In accordance with this stock option plan, Mr. Serghei Bulgac was granted 170,000 shares, while Mr. Valentin Popoviciu was granted 90,000 shares.

In accordance with the provisions of article 19 para. (1) of the Market Abuse Regulation, on 15 May 2020, Mr. Serghei Bulgac and Mr. Valentin Popoviciu, as persons discharging managerial responsibilities in connection with the Company, have notified the Company and the Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority in connection with the exercise of the stock options.

SOURCE: EuropaWire

Digi Communications NV 1Q2020 Financial Results now available

BUCHAREST, Romania, 15-May-2020 — /EPR FINANCIAL NEWS/ — Digi Communications N.V. (“Digi” or the “Company”) announces that Q1 2020 financial results are available on the Company’s website.

For details, please see:
http://www.digi-communications.ro/en/investor-relations

SOURCE: EuropaWire

Digi Communications NV Executive Directors Serghei Bulgac and Valentin Popoviciu granted conditional stock options

BUCHAREST, Romania, 14-May-2020 — /EPR FINANCIAL NEWS/ — Digi Communications NV (The Company) would like to inform the market and its investors that, on 14 May 2020, Mr. Serghei Bulgac (Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of the Company) and Mr. Valentin Popoviciu (Executive Director of the Company) have been granted by the Company conditional stock options pursuant to the decision of the Company’s general meeting of shareholders dated 30 April 2020. The number of options of class B shares granted as part of this stock option plan (applicable for the year 2020) amounts to a total of 130,000 stock options. The further vesting of all option shares granted will be conditional upon several performance criteria and the passage of a minimum duration of 1 year.

More details regarding the stock options granted to each of the above-mentioned Directors are available on the Company’s website at https://www.digi-communications.ro/en/see-file/Agenda-and-explanatory-notes.pdf (the Agenda and Explanatory notes published by the Company on 19 March 2020, Annex I).

In accordance with the applicable regulations, on 14 May 2020, Mr. Serghei Bulgac and Mr. Valentin Popoviciu, as persons discharging managerial responsibilities in connection with the Company, have notified the Company and the Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority in connection with the grant of the above-mentioned stock options and the execution between each of them and the Company of corresponding stock option agreements.

SOURCE: EuropaWire

Digi Communications N.V. will host conference call on May 15th 2020 to discuss Q1 2020 financial results

BUCHAREST, Romania, 8-May-2020 — /EPR FINANCIAL NEWS/ — Digi Communications N.V. (“Digi” or the “Company”) announces that on May 15th 2020 (at 16:00 UK time / 18:00 EEST) it will host a conference call to discuss the Q1 2020 financial results.

To participate in the conference please follow the instructions from our website www.digi-communications.ro and pre-register for the call. The deadline for pre-registration is until 14.00 UK time/16:00 EEST on 15 May 2020.

A webcast of the call and the presentation materials will be available on our websites and the webcast will be archived for 30 days: www.digi-communications.ro

SOURCE: EuropaWire

Digi Communications N.V. 2019 share dividend payment information

BUCHAREST, Romania, 6-May-2020 — /EPR FINANCIAL NEWS/ — The Company would like to inform its shareholders and the market that, on 6 May 2020, were made available the detailed instructions regarding the payment of the dividend in gross amount of 0.65 lei per share, as approved by the Company’s general shareholders’ meeting from 30 April 2020.

The detailed instructions on the payment of the dividend are available on the Company’s website, at the relevant „GSM” section – https://www.digi-communications.ro/en/corporate/general-share-holders/digi-communications-n-v-gsm-2020 , as well as in the document attached below.

For additional information, please contact us at ipo.relations@digi-communications.ro. (Investor Relations Section/Current Reports).

SOURCE: EuropaWire

DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V.: shares buy-back transactions for the 27–30 Apr 2020 period

(PRESS RELEASE) BUCHAREST, Romania, 4-May-2020 — /EPR FINANCIAL NEWS/ — In accordance with the ASF Regulation no. 5/2018 and art. 2 of the Commission Delegated Report (UE) 1052/2016, DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market (Bucharest Stock Exchange “BVB”, Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority “ASF”, the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets “AFM”) the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 27 – 30 April 2020.

For details regarding the Notification of shares buy-back, please access the official website designated of Digi: www.digi-communications.ro (Investor Relations Section/Current Reports).

SOURCE: EuropaWire

DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V.: shares buy-back transactions for the 13–17 Apr 2020 period

(PRESS RELEASE) BUCHAREST, Romania, 21-Apr-2020 — /EPR FINANCIAL NEWS/ — In accordance with the ASF Regulation no. 5/2018 and art. 2 of the Commission Delegated Report (UE) 1052/2016, DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market (Bucharest Stock Exchange “BVB”, Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority “ASF”, the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets “AFM”) the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 13 – 17 April 2020.

For details regarding the Notification of shares buy-back, please access the official website designated of Digi: www.digi-communications.ro (Investor Relations Section/Current Reports).

SOURCE: EuropaWire

Digi Communications N.V. recommends its shareholders not to attend the AGM 2020 in person due to COVID-19

BUCHAREST, Romania, 14-Apr-2020 — /EuropaWire/ — In light of the public health risks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictive measures implemented in the Netherlands and elsewhere concerning the gatherings of people, Digi Communications N.V. (the Company) recommends its shareholders not to attend the annual general meeting of shareholders (the “AGM”) in person. In order to cast their votes:

Class A shareholders: holders of registered class A shares (which for the purposes of the AGM includes holders of rights of usufruct and pledgees with voting rights in respect of those shares) are advised to send the notice of attendance indicating that they will not participate in person to the meeting and instead will grant a proxy either to (i) a third party or to (ii) Mrs. Andra Gunescu and to Mrs. Madalina Elena-Lungu, any of whom may individually and alternatively (and not collectively) execute the given proxy, in which case such proxy must include unequivocal voting instruction(s).

Class B shareholders: holders of class B shares (which for the purposes of the AGM includes holders of rights of usufruct and pledgees with voting rights in respect of those shares) are advised to either (i) send the notice of attendance indicating that they will not participate to the meeting in person or be represented by their own representative and thus grant a power of attorney to Mrs. Andra Gunescu who will be authorized to, on behalf of the relevant holder, with the right of substitution, to attend the AGM, to sign the attendance list, to speak and to cast a vote at that meeting on the voting items on the agenda in accordance with the voting instructions provided by the relevant holder; or (ii) give voting instructions via the Evo-platform of ING Bank N.V. (www.ing.evo-platform.com/digi).

For further details, please refer to the convening notice for the AGM, available on the Company’s website, at https://www.digi-communications.ro/en/see-file/Convocation-Notice-19.03.2020.pdf.The Company acknowledges that constraints caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, particularly the restrictions to the physical presence of shareholders at the AGM and thus to ask questions at the meeting. For this reason, shareholders who wish to submit questions regarding items on the AGM agenda, are encouraged to do so by e-mail to digi.gsm@digi-communications.ro until 12:00 pm CET on Monday, 27 April 2020, (13:00 pm in Romania).

The e-mail must include the name, surname, number of shares held by the shareholder on the record date for the AGM and the AGM agenda item to which the question relates.

SOURCE: EuropaWire

DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V.: shares buy-back transactions for the 6–10 Apr 2020 period

BUCHAREST, Romania, 13-Apr-2020 — /EPR FINANCIAL NEWS/ — In accordance with the ASF Regulation no. 5/2018 and art. 2 of the Commission Delegated Report (UE) 1052/2016, DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market (Bucharest Stock Exchange “BVB”, Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority “ASF”, the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets “AFM”) the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 6 – 10 April 2020.

For details regarding the Notification of shares buy-back, please access the official website designated of Digi: www.digi-communications.ro (Investor Relations Section/Current Reports).

SOURCE: EuropaWire

Bogdan Ciobotaru, Non-Executive Director of DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. exercised his stock option

(PRESS RELEASE) BUCHAREST, Romania, 6-Apr-2020 — /EPR FINANCIAL NEWS/ — DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. (The Company) would like to inform the market and its investors that on 6 April 2020 Mr. Bogdan Ciobotaru, Non-Executive Director of the Company, have exercised his stock option, which have vested in accordance with the provisions of the Company’s stock option plan and which were granted pursuant to the decision of the Company’s general meeting of shareholders dated 2 May 2018 and in relation to which the abovementioned person and the Company have concluded a stock option agreement on 18 May 2018. In accordance with this stock option plan and the general meeting of shareholders dated 2 May 2018, Mr. Bogdan Ciobotaru was granted 116,090 class B shares.

In accordance with the provisions of article 19 para. (1) of the Market Abuse Regulation, on 6 April 2020, Mr. Bogdan Ciobotaru, as person discharging managerial responsibilities in connection with the Company, have notified the Company and the Romanian and Dutch Financial Supervisory Authorities in connection with the exercise of the stock option.

For details regarding the reports, please access the official website designated of Digi: www.digi-communications.ro (Investor Relations Section/Current Reports).

SOURCE: EuropaWire

DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V.: shares buy-back transactions for the 30 Mar – 3 Apr 2020 period

BUCHAREST, Romania, 6-Apr-2020 — /EPR FINANCIAL NEWS/ — In accordance with the ASF Regulation no. 5/2018 and art. 2 of the Commission Delegated Report (UE) 1052/2016, DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market (Bucharest Stock Exchange “BVB”, Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority “ASF”, the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets “AFM”) the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 30 March – 3 April 2020.

For details regarding the Notification of shares buy-back, please access the official website designated of Digi: www.digi-communications.ro (Investor Relations Section/Current Reports).

SOURCE: EuropaWire

DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V.: shares buy-back transactions for the 23–27 Mar 2020 period

BUCHAREST, Romania, 30-Mar-2020 — /EPR FINANCIAL NEWS/ — In accordance with the ASF Regulation no. 5/2018 and art. 2 of the Commission Delegated Report (UE) 1052/2016, DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market (Bucharest Stock Exchange “BVB”, Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority “ASF”, the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets “AFM”) the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 23 – 27 March 2020.

For details regarding the Notification of shares buy-back, please access the official website designated of Digi: www.digi-communications.ro (Investor Relations Section/Current Reports).

SOURCE: EuropaWire

Digi Communications N.V.: RCS & RDS S.A.’s senior secured notes admitted to trading on Euronext Dublin

BUCHAREST, Romania, 26-Mar-2020 — /EPR FINANCIAL NEWS/ — Digi Communications N.V. (The Company) would like to inform the market and its investors that on 25 March 2020, the Central Bank of Ireland has approved the prospectus for the admission to trading of the (i) €450.0 million 2.50% senior secured notes due 2025 (ISIN XS2107451069) and (ii) €400.0 million 3.25% senior secured notes due 2028, issued by RCS&RDS on 5 February 2020 (ISIN XS2107452620) (the “Notes”) and Irish Stock Exchange plc (trading as Euronext Dublin) has approved the admission to trading of the Notes on the regulated market operated by it. The Notes are thus listed on the Official List of the Irish Stock Exchange plc (trading as Euronext Dublin) and traded on its regulated market. The prospectus relating to the Notes will be made available on the website of the Company at https://www.digi-communications.ro/en/investor-relations/bonds/notes-2025-2028.

For further information in relation to the Offering and the Notes, please refer to the reports dated 27 January 2020, 30 January 2020 and 5 February 2020 each available at http://bvb.ro/FinancialInstruments/SelectedData/NewsItem/DIGI-Oferta-obligatiuni-RCS-RDS-in-val-de-800mil-EURO-si-ajustare-sit-fin-Q3-2019/8A562,
http://bvb.ro/FinancialInstruments/SelectedData/NewsItem/DIGI-Digi-anunta-suplimentarea-si-incheierea-ofertei-de-obligatiuni-de-catre-RCS-RDS/B3A8D and
https://www.digi-communications.ro/en/see-file/Project-Prime_-Closing-RNS_EN.pdf

This announcement is not an offer of securities for sale in the United States. The Notes may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an exemption from registration under the U.S. Securities Act. Any securities mentioned herein have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act, and no public offering will be made in the United States.

For details regarding the reports, please access the official website designated of Digi: www.digi-communications.ro (Investor Relations Section/Current Reports).

SOURCE: EuropaWire