The number of Orange customers has dropped below 2.5 million. 25,000 people have set up TV, the Internet has 280,000 clients – Živé.sk

Orange today announced its financial results for the third quarter. The number of mobile clients is 2.49 million, year-on-year they are 225 thousand less. According to the company, such a significant decrease is caused by the cleaning of the offer – inactive cards were switched off.

Prepaid cards they lost 30,000 clients and at the end of September they it was 323 thousand. Flat rates decreased by up to 308 thousand clients to 1.889 million.

There are more clients with M2M services – year-on-year by 114 thousand to 278-thousand. These are SIMs that are designed for communication between devices. In general, operators have a lower average monthly return per card than regular customers.

Fixed services have been successful

Fixed internet via optics, DSL or fixed LTE connection was used at the end of September 280,000 clients. Their number has increased about 49,000 clients .

About 25,000 subscribers the number of clients with Orange TV increased year-on-year. Together her has 153 thousand subscribers.

A combination of mobile and fixed services in one package has from the operator 142 thousand customers. 33,000 more were added.

Optical network from Orange is available for 566,422 households. However, it also provides fixed services through the Telekom network (another over 424,000 households). The mobile 4G network is available to 99 percent of the population – 141 cities and 2,219 municipalities are covered.

“Compared to the same period in 2020, Orange’s customers transferred more than 57% more data in the mobile data network, with more than 87% of the total volume of 48.27 million GB transferred in the 4G network, a year-on-year increase of 61%. In the high-speed 5G network, customers have transferred 41.02 thousand GB of data since its launch in May this year, “the operator specified.

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The company’s revenues fell

Operator revenues decreased by three million euros during the first 9 months of this year according to IFRS 15 standards to EUR 394 million. Revenues from services fell by EUR 2 million to EUR 104 million in the third quarter and from equipment sales by up to EUR 4 million to EUR 26 million.

“This slight decrease is mainly due to the decrease in revenues from the sale of equipment, which was caused by the failure of equipment availability due to the crisis with a lack of chips, “says Orange.

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