Digi satisfied with operations in Portugal

Director Serghei Bulgac asked about any purchase of MEO: “It’s not our target but we never say.”

A Digi Portugal in November last year, quickly with the communications market, but also quickly began to originate from many customers.

Early there were reports about the lowest quality of the network: the internet connection is lost, you cannot receive or make phone calls. And the fiber signal was not activated either after the installation. In addition to the lack of customer support or the few television channels on the initial list.

Even so, the Romanian company is “Quite satisfied” with operations in Portuguese market, until now.

The accounts are not yet balanced but the result has been rising: Revenues of 35 million euros In the first half of the year, with average revenue per user of 7.1 euros.

The second quarter was slightly below the first quarter of 2025 (400 thousand euros), but the executive director Serghei Bulgac explained that this descent is related to the fact that it is ceasing to market the Newly.

There are 790 thousand customers at Digi: 420 thousand of mobile service and 144 thousand in broadband internet.

“We have watched a good search and traction of our product with the Portuguese ”, commented the company official, in a conference with analysts.

But The company’s biggest operational loss is really in Portugal – Entry into the market is recent, there are adaptations, namely cost.

“We are doing our best to control the costs. We already have the necessary systems set up but, being in the first year of activity, we knew that the initial costs would be high, as we are proving, ”quotes the.

At the level of coverage, the company’s objective is half of the country (and have more customers) by the end of this year, or until the beginning of 2026.

Questioned about the possibility of Buy AlticeSerghei Bulgac did not escape this possibility.

“Altice is not focus. We like to say that we are an organic player and we know that MEO is incumbent, but it is not our target. Still, we never say ever, even if we are not looking at this direction now,” said the Digi director.