While the first quarter of the year may have seen disappointment for Orange regarding revenues, slipping 0.1% year-on-year, its TV business has witnessed rising customer numbers.

Standout Orange TV performer was the company’s home territory of France which finished the quarter with 7.103 million subscribers, up 3.43% on an annual basis and up compared with the fourth quarter of 2018. Spain saw a sequential quarterly fall of 11,000 but a yearly rise of 10% to 705,000. Poland saw subs rise 11% annually and 2% sequentially to 943,000; Belgium and Luxembourg had such rises of 72% and 16% respectively to total 184,000 ; and in Central Europe these were 19% and 2.7% to 668,000 customers.