Proximus collaborates with Delta Fiber and Eurofiber on Belgian fiber optic network – IT Pro – News

Proximus will work with the two Dutch companies Delta Fiber and Eurofiber to provide 2 million households and companies with a fiber optic connection throughout Belgium. Proximus said earlier that it wants to have 2.4 million fiber optic connections in Belgium by 2025.

According to Proximus, with the two cooperation agreements the quarterly figures presented on Friday the fiber optic connections can be made thirty percent faster than the company said. Earlier, Proximus said it wanted to realize 2.4 million fiber optic connections by 2025. The company therefore thinks that this can be done faster with the cooperation agreements. With the 2.4 million connections, Proximus says it has a glass fiber coverage of approximately fifty percent.

Proximus wants to use Delta Fiber install a fiber optic network in Flanders. With this collaboration, approximately 1.5 million companies and households must be connected to the fiber optic network. Delta currently has 700,000 fiber optic connections in the Netherlands and plans to have a million connections in the country by the end of next year.

Met Eurofiber wants to focus Proximus on Wallonia. Within this collaboration, at least 500,000 homes and companies must be connected to the fiber optic network. Eurofiber now has fiber optic connections in the Benelux at 12,000 locations and 550 business parks.

The two companies will help Proximus design, build, maintain and upgrade a network. This fiber optic network must also be opened up to wholesale customers. With the agreements, Proximus wants to have realized 4.2 million fiber optic connections by the end of 2028. Then the provider has a fiber optic coverage of about seventy percent.

Proximus announced in March want to accelerate the roll-out of the fiber optic network. Earlier, the company only wanted to connect 2.4 million homes and businesses to the fiber optic network by 2030. The provider already announced that it was looking for partners.

The quarterly figures also show that the number of customers of the company has increased. The number of TV customers increased by 11,000 to 1.65 million customers, the number of customers with a fixed internet connection increased by 19,000 to 2.1 million. The number of customers with a mobile subscription increased by 45,000 to 4.1 million customers. The number of machine-to-machineSIM card customers grew the most at 32.6 percent year-on-year, to two million customers. Proximus saw the largest decrease among prepaid customers, the number of which decreased year-on-year by 12.2 percent to 662,000 customers.

Sales decreased by 4.3 percent compared to the second quarter of 2019. Proximus had a turnover of 1.04 billion euros in the past quarter. According to Proximus, this decrease is largely due to the corona virus, because mobile customers roam less. Turnover of the entire Proximus Group decreased by 5.9 percent to 1.33 billion euros. The Proximus Group’s gross profit or EBITDA was 477 million euros, a decrease of 1.5 percent.

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