The EC has approved the Orange Masmovil merger (HERE) with remedies unchanged from the announcement in early December (HERE). We continue to be of the view that the remedy package is a good one for the operators in Spain, and indeed for the likelihood of further M&A in Europe.
The decision that we have all been waiting for has finally arrived. Orange Masmovil and Digi have reached an agreement for a remedy package in Spain. We provide our thoughts on the package in this piece. The headline “Digi buying spectrum” is bad, but we think that the reality and specifics of the package are nowhere near as bad as the headline would suggest.
Masmovil (MM) has reported a good set of numbers, with Telco SR better at +7.7% y/y from +6.1% y/y in Q2. EBITDA growth y/y is much worse sequentially, but quarterly trends can be volatile: 9m EBITDA growth was +7.7% y/y vs +7.0% y/y in 2022. MM gave some interesting updates to the merger process on the call, which we include in this report.
While the Masmovil-Orange decision is probably the biggest upcoming decision you have heard of, the biggest decision for the European telecoms industry that most people haven’t heard of, is coming up next month at the World Radio Congress : the longer-term use for the 6.4-7.1GHz band in Europe.
The Spanish market right now is in a period of great uncertainty, until we know the outcome of the Masmovil-Orange ruling and can gauge the impact of any remedies. To try to answer that, we recently published an in-depth note trying to recreate the EC’s analysis on GUPPI ratios, suggesting that the sale of sub-brands, most likely to Digi, should be an acceptable remedy (even if Digi is trying to ask for more), and this shouldn’t destabilise the market too much.
Masmovil (MM) has reported a good set of numbers, with Telco SR and EBITDA trends better than in Q2. A decision on the Orange-MM deal deal is due on 4th September. Ahead of that decision, we commissioned a survey in Spain to look into switching patterns in the event of a shutdown of current provider, so that we can work out diversion and GUPPI ratios for all the various Orange and Masmovil brands (this builds on and expands the work we did in March 2022, looking at a similar topic).
As part of our expanding high yield coverage, we now have a full model and coverage of Masmovil (MM). We look at the latest quarterly trends in this report following the recent Q1 results, including feedback from the call. As a reminder, Orange CFO talked about Orange’s future plans for MM on the recent NDR roadshow we hosted – HERE.
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