By the end of 2015, Orange TV reached 306,000 homes, driven by convergent offers through a growing fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network. Although it has been operating in the country since 2006, Orange's pay-TV platform first exceeded the 100,000 subscriber barrier in January 2015.
The TV figures only refer to Orange's packages and don’t include Jazztel's clients after their merger, as the pay-TV service has been distributed to Jazztel customers since the end of January.
Orange’s fibre business is also growing at great pace. 2015 ended with 809,000 FTTH subscribers, 3.9 times more than in 2014, after adding nearly 250,000 subs during Q4.
Indeed, the telco is carrying out an aggressive fibre strategy and plans to connect ten million homes before the end of the year, up from its current 6.8 million homes. Concurrently, the company is offering ADSL clients the option to migrate to 30Mbps-fibre connections with no extra cost, even though it sometimes has to use third-party telcos' networks to achieve this.
Despite the growth in pay-TV and FTTH, most of Orange's €4.25 billion income in Spain was generated by its mobile business. The French telco has 19 million clients in the country, of which 15.2 million are mobile and 3.75 million are fixed.
Its income is actually 2.3% lower than in 2014, something the company intends to solve by reducing costs.
Although a final agreement has not yet been reached with the unions, the telco also intends to fire over 400 workers before April.
Source: http://www.rapidtvnews.com/2016021841795/orange-triples-pay-tv-subs-in-spain.html#axzz40aJVu0VW