The annual evolutions are calculated at the value of indicators in euro, and for the conversion from euros to lei, it was considered an exchange rate of 4.62 lei per euro.
Most of Digi business is concentrated in Ro¬mania, where ope¬rations totalled EUR163.1 million in January-March 2018, down 1.1% from EUR164.9 million in the same period in 2017.
The revenue reported in Romania was due mostly to an increase in the average revenue per user (ARPU) and in the number of subscriptions (revenue generating unit – RGU) for mobile telecommunications services, and in the number of RGU for cable television, internet and fixed data services.
The ARPU for mobile telecommunications services rose to an average EUR4.3 per month compared with an average EUR3.8 per month for January-March 2017, which translates into a nearly 13.2% increase, mainly due to expanding the subscription base.
Operating expenses in Romania reached EUR99.4 million in January-March 2018, compared with EUR116.4 million in the year-earlier period, which translates into a 14.6% decline, mainly due to the fact that the electricity supply activity had an almost neutral impact during the current period, compared with the operating loss in the first quarter of 2017 when it was registered a negative gross margin of EUR7.4 million.