Orange Spain is negotiating a settlement with DAZN regarding its technical failures in the transmission of La Liga games that are generating “additional costs” to the French platform. The vice president of Consumption Unit at Orange, Diego Martinez, has confirmed the negotiations in search of a compensation for the extra cost of offering the service […]
Jean-François Fallacher, CEO of Orange Spain, has said that the telco’s merger with MásMóvil should be approved without conditions, on the grounds that Spanish market is highly competitive, and that the operation will not have a negative impact on competition. The Spanish telco market currently has eight operators with revenues of over €100 million. “It […]
Orange has reported that revenues for Q3 2022 rose 1 per cent year on year, driven by Europe – which performed well (+3.2 per cent) with Spain returning to growth, and Africa & Middle East, which grew 4.2 per cent and remains on course to meet its annual growth target of around 6 per cent. […]
Amidst the merger process with MásMóvil, Orange Spain lost €414 million in 2021 versus €130 million of profit the previous year. Tougher competition with low cost offers and the cost of compensation following the dismissal of 400 workers are behind the financial performance. By contrast, MásMóvil had a net benefit of €189 million in 2021 […]
Pay-TV saw record subscriber numbers in Spain for the first quarter of the year with over 9.21 million, up 118,000 on the fourth quarter of 2021 and 646,000 more than the same period last year. According to the regulatory body CNMC, IPTV is the market leader for delivery with over 5 million subscribers, followed by […]
The current CEO of Orange Spain, Jean François Fallacher, will be the non-executive president of the new company formed by the Orange-MásMóvil joint-venture. They will set up a new company following the approval from the European and National authorities in the second quarter of 2023. The CEO of MásMóvil, Meinrad Spenger, will be the CEO […]
Viaccess-Orca (VO), a provider of OTT and TV platforms, content protection, and advanced data solutions, has announced that Orange France is using VO’s Secure Video Player (VO Player) combined with VO’s QoE metrics dashboard system (VO QoX) to offer a unified and superior user experience across devices and identify severity and sources of poor media […]
SoftAtHome, an independent software company for broadband, video, and analytics, equipped the hybrid OTT/Satellite set-top box targeting several African countries. It has been deployed in Ivory Coast and will soon be rolled out in Senegal, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Mali. Additional African countries are planned to be deployed in a later phase. The hybrid […]
Zappware, part of the Zurich-based ZEGI Group, continues to expand its AndroidTV deployments in the Orange group with a new DVB-C TV solution. The software brings a hybrid setup of DVB-C in up to 4K UHD quality and OTT internet connectivity. The highly configurable nature of the the Zappware software stack allows a cost effective […]
Orange Spain saw its revenues fall by 4.3 per cent to €2.26 billion in the first half of the year, albeit less than the 5.1 per cent reduction the same period in 2021. By quarters, the second, was better than the first with a revenues fall of 4 per cent versus 4.6 per cent until […]