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From modest beginnings
DIGI COMMUNICATIONS, also known as RCS & RDS, is a Romanian company operating in Romania, Spain, Italy, Hungary and Portugal.
With approximately five million lines, Digi made a modest debut providing international calls for the Romanian community.
After fighting off lowcost competitors, the company is Spain’s fifth largest mobile operator, the National Commission on Markets and Competition (CNMC) announced.
It now has 3.79 million mobile lines after acquiring another 824,000 clients in 2022. Broadband customers increased from 480,000 to 843,000 within 12 months and there are now more than 249,000 landlines compared with last year’s 279,000.
The Orange MasMovil merger will push it back to fifth place, although insiders predict that Digi could mop up some of the divestments that both operators will have to make.
Asked if Digi was preparing for this scenario, Marius Varzaru, the company’s CEO in Spain, said they were unaware of EU conditions for the merger.
“When we have this information, there will be
SPANISH multinational ACS will build a €2.8 billion battery factory for Panasonic in De Soto (Kansas). Turner (ACS) subsidiary of the engineering and construction company headed by Real Madrid president Florentino Perez will build the plant in consortium with US company Yates Construction.
Panasonic is investing $4 billion (€3.75 billion) in the future factory which will manufacture batteries for electric vehicles. Of this, €2.815 will go to the TurnerYates building project.
“The US is a great market,” said Juan Santamaria, CEO of ACS, “and Turner is our spearhead.”
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an opportunity to assess it,” he told the Spanish media.
Regarding the merger, Varzaru answered that competition was the best way for companies to give their clients good value. “In our case, it makes us work harder to provide the best technology at the best price,” he said.
