According to the regulator, the operator was the fastest growing in Q1 2025 but overall market growth was moderate
Spain’s telecoms sector recorded steady growth in the first quarter of 2025, according to figures published by the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC). Retail revenues for telecom services reached €5.81 billion between January and March, a year-on-year increase of 2.7 percent compared with the same period in 2024.
DIGI once again stood out as the fastest-growing operator, with turnover expanding by more than 21 percent. Movistar also posted healthy growth, up 5.6 percent, while MasOrange maintained broadly stable revenues. Vodafone and the country’s leading free-to-air television broadcasters reported declines. The four largest operators together still accounted for 84.3 percent of total retail income in the quarter, underlining the market’s concentration.
Investment in high-speed infrastructure continued to reshape the landscape. The number of installed next-generation access (NGA) connections stood at 87.7 million, down 1.9 percent compared with the previous year, but the number of active NGA lines rose to 18.5 million, an increase of 5.4 percent. Fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) remained the dominant technology, with 17.2 million active connections across Spain.
Fixed broadband services also grew steadily. Total broadband lines reached 19.1 million, up 4.3 percent year on year. Nearly 90 percent of these connections were delivered over fibre, reflecting the country’s very advanced rollout of FTTH. High-speed access has become the norm, with 18.5 million subscribers contracted for speeds of 100 Mbps or above. Close to 30 percent of these lines, almost six million, offered at least 1 Gbps. Market concentration is still a thing here as well, with Movistar, Vodafone and MasOrange collectively serving 82.3 percent of fixed broadband lines. Including DIGI, the combined market share of the four largest operators reached 93.4 percent.
Mobile services showed a similar pattern of steady expansion. The number of mobile lines with internet access grew by 3.5 percent to reach 55.6 million. Almost nine out of ten mobile users now have broadband data services. Traffic volumes however surged sharply, with data usage rising by 13.8 percent compared with a year earlier to a total of 2.3 million terabytes consumed in the quarter.
Pay television also registered growth. Total subscriptions rose by 5.3 percent to 11.4 million. IPTV, delivered over broadband networks, continued to expand its share of the market, serving 6.3 million customers.
The figures confirm Spain’s position as one of Europe’s leaders in fibre adoption, with operators competing aggressively for customers seeking faster and more data-intensive services – without paying too much.
