Telecoms operator Digi Romania announces that they finalized two export credit loan agreements worth 54.76 million euro with maturity of four years, to expand its networks in Romania and Portugal. "The Company wishes to inform the market that Digi Romania SA has entered into on 27 March 2025 two export credit loan agreements in the principal amount of EUR 54,766,340.98, with a maturity of 4 (four) years from the starting date of each loan (i.e. the starting date of each loan being 30 April 2025 and 30 June 2025, respectively), to be used for the purpose of expanding the telecommunications networks of the Company's subsidiaries in Romania and Portugal," reads a statement sent by the company to the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB). In addition, Digi Spain Telecom, S.L.U. and Banco Santander S.A., Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria S.A., ING Bank N.V., Sucursal en España, as mandated lead arrangers and mandated lead arrangers, and a syndicate of banks acting as original lenders, have signed on 28 March 2025 a credit facility agreement for an amount of €275,000,000, with a maturity of 5 (five) years from the date of the signature of the credit facility. The sums borrowed will be used by DIGI Spain for: a) refinancing of the existing loans on the basis of the credit contract signed on 26 July 2021, as it was amended later; b) financing of the capital expenditures in Spain; c) general corporatist purposes and for working capital. Digi Communications N.V. is the parent company of telecoms operator Digi Romania, the market leader in pay-TV and convergent broadband services in Romania, with operations in Spain, Italy, Portugal and Belgium. Established 30 years ago, the company operates an extensive and advanced fibre optic network in Romania and Spain. Digi Communications N.V. reported consolidated revenues of EUR1.925bn in 2024, up 13.9% year-on-year to EUR540m.
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