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Orange Polska S.A.

Earnings Release Apr 23, 2025

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Current Report 11/2025 Orange Polska S.A., Warsaw, Poland 23 April 2025

Pursuant to Article 17(1) of the Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on market abuse (market abuse regulation) and repealing Directive 2003/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Directives 2003/124/EC, 2003/125/EC and 2004/72/EC, the Management Board of Orange Polska S.A. hereby provides selected financial and operating data related to the activities of the Orange Polska Capital Group ("the Group", "Orange Polska") for 1Q 2025.

Disclosures on performance measures have been presented in the Note 2 to Condensed IFRS Quarterly Consolidated Financial Statements of the Orange Polska Group for the 3 months ended 31 March 2025 (available at https://www.orange-ir.pl/results-center/).

Orange Polska reports solid commercial and financial results in 1Q 2025

Key highlights of 1Q 2025:

➢ Solid financial results:

  • With revenues at PLN 3,153 million +2.3% yoy fuelled by robust growth of core telecom services (+7.3% yoy) and IT&IS (+19% yoy), and EBITDAal at PLN 822 million +2.9% yoy driven by strong growth of the direct margin
  • ➢ Good commercial momentum:
    • As demonstrated by consistent growth of customer bases and ARPO of all key telecom services, especially in mobile handset where net customer additions of 77 thousand were the highest in many quarters
  • ➢ Two blocks of 700MHz spectrum secured at starting reserve price of PLN 712 million
  • ➢ Full-year guidance confirmed
key figures
(PLN million)
1Q 2025 1Q 2024 Change
Revenue 3,153 3,081 +2.3%
EBITDAaL 822 799 +2.9%
EBITDAaL margin 26.1% 25.9% +0.2 p.p.
operating income 312 349 -10.5%
net income 191 227 -15.7%
eCapex 431 291 +48%
organic cash flow -89 22 -111m

Commenting on 1Q 2025 performance, Liudmila Climoc, Chief Executive Officer, said:

"We are very excited about the new Lead the Future strategy that we have just announced. All Orange teams are now aligned and fully focused on its disciplined execution.

We are satisfied with a solid start to the year, as the customer bases and ARPO for all key services expanded year-on-year at a good pace, with mobile standing out. We have recently enhanced our TV offer sold in combination with fibre to further boost our commercial momentum. This new offer will strengthen our commercial proposal to encourage new households to choose offers from Orange. In the business market, we are glad to see that IT&IS revenues returned to growth in 1Q amid still uncertain market environment.

First quarter was marked out by another important milestone for Orange Polska - in 5G spectrum auction we have secured licences for two blocks in 700MHz band at the best possible price. Our strategic commitment is to enhance the connectivity for Poland, bringing the best of 5G technology to enable the innovation for consumers and businesses. This spectrum will enhance coverage and will open new service opportunities for our customers, strengthening our leadership in connectivity. I am very happy that our commitment to network quality has been validated by independent speed test benchmarks, where both our 5G and FTTH networks were, once again, ranked #1 in the first quarter of 2025.

Our forward focus is to keep good commercial momentum by delivering the best offers and experience for our customers, and to execute on our transformation initiatives to fuel the growth and value creation beyond 2025."

Results Review

1Q revenue +2.3% yoy driven by core telecom services and IT&IS

Revenues totalled PLN 3,153 million in 1Q 2025 and were higher by PLN 72 million year-on-year (+2.3%). Core telecom services (combined revenues of convergence, mobile-only and broadband-only) advanced by a robust 7.3% year-on-year, which is a higher rate of increase versus previous few quarters as we benefit from further simultaneous expansion of the customer bases and ARPO. IT&IS revenues were up 19% yearon-year reflecting mainly demand growth for integration services. These positives were partly offset by two factors. Firstly, a 14% year-on-year decrease of equipment revenues, mainly handsets, reflecting lower market demand and different mix of handsets sold. Secondly, a 22% decrease of other revenues due to energy resale mainly as a result of lower volumes of energy sold.

KPI ('000) 1Q 2025 1Q 2024 Change
convergent customers (B2C) 1,800 1,718 +4.8%
mobile accesses (SIM cards) 18,895 17,706 +6.7%
post-paid 14,634 13,298 +10.0%
o/w mobile handset 9,271 8,989 +3.1%
pre-paid 4,262 4,409 -3.3%
fixed broadband accesses (retail) 2,898 2,827 +2.5%
o/w fibre 1,605 1,394 +15.1%
KPI (PLN) 1Q 2025 1Q 2024 Change
convergent ARPO 127.0 121.8 +4.2%
mobile handset-only ARPO 29.8 29.4 +1.3%
fixed broadband-only ARPO 68.5 65.5 +4.6%

1Q commercial performance sustained good balance between volume and value growth

In 1Q 2025 we continued to successfully combine solid growth of customer volumes in all key services (convergence, fixed broadband, mobile handset) with improving average revenue that they generate (ARPO).

B2C convergent customer base increased by 16 thousand or 5% year-on-year. ARPO from convergent customers expanded by 4.2% year-on-year to PLN 127.0 owing to our value strategy, good demand for content and higher speed fibre offers. ARPO maintained solid pace of growth from 2024 when it increased by 4.6% year-on-year.

Total fixed broadband customer base expanded by 5 thousand or 2% year-on-year. Fibre customers base expanded by 38 thousand or 15% year-on-year. Already 55% of our broadband customer base uses fibre. The copper broadband technologies customer base continued to decrease and was lower by 34 thousand versus previous quarter. ARPO from broadband-only services stood at PLN 68.5 and grew by 4.6% yearon-year benefitting from our value strategy and growing share of fibre customers (fibre generates higher ARPO versus other technologies). The pace of ARPO growth accelerated versus 2024 when it increased 3.4% year-on-year.

Mobile handset customer base increased 77 thousand or 3% year-on-year. This strong growth was fuelled by all our B2C offers and B2B. Mobile-only handset ARPO stood at PLN 29.8 and increased by 1.3% yearon-year (versus an increase of 1.6% year-on-year in 2024).

Pre-paid customer base decreased 49 thousand. ARPO from pre-paid offers stood at PLN 16.1 growing 19.7% year-on-year as a result of our value strategy.

In PSTN fixed voice, net loss of lines stood at 32 thousand, a similar level to previous quarters reflecting structural market shift.

1Q EBITDAaL +2.9% yoy supported by strong growth of margin from core business

EBITDAaL for 1Q 2025 was PLN 822 million and was up 2.9% year-on-year or PLN 23 million. Growth was driven by direct margin (a difference between revenues and direct costs) which increased by 2.7% year-onyear (or PLN 46 million) as a result of strong revenue growth of high-margin core telecom services. Indirect costs grew 2.6% year-on-year (or PLN 23 million) mainly as a result of salary increases and cost pressures related to inflation and minimum wage growth. These were partly offset by impact of our ongoing transformation and lower energy costs.

1Q net income reflects growing EBITDAaL, higher depreciation and timing of real estate sales

Net income for 1Q 2025 was at PLN 191 million and was down 16% year-on-year (or PLN 36 million) as EBITDAaL growth was more than offset by lower gain on sale of our real estate and higher depreciation. Gain on sale of real estate was PLN 38 million lower year-on-year due to different timing of transactions between the years. Higher depreciation (by PLN 15 million year-on-year) reflected growing investments in mobile network assets.

1Q Organic Cash Flow reflects seasonality, higher capex and timing of proceeds from real estate sales

Organic cash flow for 1Q 2025 came at a negative PLN 89 million reflecting seasonally high payments related to the peak of commercial and investment activity occurring at the end of the previous year. In 1Q 2024 organic cash flow amounted to PLN 22 million. On the one hand cash flow provided by operating activities was PLN 25 million higher year-on-year supported by EBITDAaL growth and slightly lower working capital requirement. On the other hand it was affected by timing of capex and real estate disposals. Capex paid was PLN 67 million higher year-on-year in 1Q as a result of different phasing of investments between the years. Proceeds from real estate disposal were at PLN 6 million in 1Q 2025 versus a very high level of PLN 95 million generated in 1Q 2024.

Commenting on 1Q 2025 results, Jacek Kunicki, Chief Financial Officer, said:

"I am satisfied with our financial results in 1Q as we have started to execute our Lead the Future strategy. Revenues are back to a solid pace of growth, fuelled by a robust increase of core telecom services, as we are consistently expanding both number of customers and ARPO. Revenues from these high-margin services constitute a key element for our profit generation and drove almost 3% growth of EBITDAaL in the period. A combination of high profitability of revenues and cost discipline is our recipe to deliver consistent and sustainable growth throughout the new strategy which is essential for shareholder value creation. Following 1Q results we reiterate our full-year guidance."

Reconciliation of operating performance measure to financial statements

Disclosures on performance measures have been presented in the Note 2 to Condensed IFRS Quarterly Consolidated Financial Statements of the Orange Polska Group for the 3 months ended 31 March 2025 (available at https://www.orange-ir.pl/results-center/).

in PLNm 1Q 2025 1Q 2024
Operating income 312 349
Less gains on disposal of fixed assets (4) (42)
Add-back of depreciation, amortisation and impairment of property, plant and
equipment and intangible assets
520 505
Add share of loss of joint venture adjusted for elimination of margin earned on asset
related transactions with joint venture
30 37
Interest expense on lease liabilities (36) (37)
Adjustment for the impact of employment termination programs and reorganisation
costs
- (13)
EBITDAaL (EBITDA after Leases) 822 799

Forward-looking statement

This press release contains forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, statements regarding anticipated future events and financial performance with respect to our operations. Forward-looking statements can be identified by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. They often include words like 'believe', 'expect', 'anticipate', 'estimated', 'project', 'plan', 'adjusted' and 'intend' or future or conditional verbs such as 'will,' 'would,' or 'may.' Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from expected results include, but are not limited to, those set forth in our Registration Statement, as filed with the Polish securities and exchange commission, the competitive environment in which we operate, changes in general economic conditions and changes in the Polish and/or global financial and/or capital markets. Forward-looking statements represent management's views as of the date they are made, and we assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements for actual events occurring after that date. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements.

Invitation to Orange Polska's 1Q 2025 results presentation

24th April 2025

Start at 11:00 am CET

11:00 (Warsaw) / 10:00 (London) / 05:00 (New York)

The presentation will take place on-line. It will be available via a live conference call.

To attend the conference please dial:

Poland: 0048 22 124 49 59 France: 0033 1758 50 878 Germany: 0049 30 25 555 323 United Kingdom: 0044 203 984 9844 United States: 001 718 866 4614

Conference code: 411064

or click on the link for web dial in:

https://mm.closir.com/slides?id=411064

You will be able to ask voice questions as well by telephone as by connecting via web dial in.

The recording from the conference call will be later available on the IR website.

Orange Polska Group Consolidated

amounts in PLN millions 2024
2Q 3Q 4Q FY 1Q
Income
statement
IFRS16 IFRS16 IFRS16 IFRS16 IFRS16 IFRS16
Revenues
Mobile services only 719 742 762 759 2,982 766
Fixed services only 446 442 438 437 1,763 436
Narrowband 115 111 107 104 437 100
Broadband 220 219 222 224 885 227
B2B Network Solutions 111 112 109 109 441 109
Convergent services B2C 620 636 657 667 2,580 680
Equipment sales 475 407 411 523 1,816 407
IT and integration services 327 405 337 518 1,587 389
Wholesale 391 403 418 410 1,622 395
Mobile wholesale 206 221 236 229 892 203
Fixed wholesale 144 142 141 144 571 146
Other 41 40 41 37 159 46
Other revenues 103 88 82 109 382 80
Total revenues 3,081 3,123 3,105 3,423 12,732 3,153
Labour expenses* (382) (369) (352) (357) (1,460) (399)
External purchases* (1,796) (1,799) (1,731) (2,134) (7,460) (1,827)
- Interconnect expenses (314) (322) (295) (348) (1,279) (318)
- Network and IT expenses (235) (250) (256) (285) (1,026) (247)
- Commercial expenses (707) (711) (659) (928) (3,005) (728)
- Other external purchases* (540) (516) (521) (573) (2,150) (533)
Other operating incomes & expenses* 98 103 60 104 365 106
Impairment of receivables and contract assets (30) (27) (34) (46) (137) (41)
Amortization of right-of-use assets
Interest expense on lease liabilities
(135)
(37)
(139)
(38)
(144)
(37)
(150)
(36)
(568)
(148)
(134)
(36)
EBITDAaL (EBITDA after Leases) 799 854 867 804 3,324 822
% of revenues
Gains on disposal of fixed assets
25.9%
42
27.3%
22
27.9%
11
23.5%
38
26.1%
113
26.1%
4
Depreciation, amortisation and impairment of property, plant and equipment and
intangibles assets**
(505) (508) (522) (486) (2,021) (520)
Add-back of interest expense on lease liabilities 37 38 37 36 148 36
Adjustment for the impact of employment termination programs and reorganization
costs*
13 (1) 0 (2) 10 0
Adjustment for the costs related to acquisition,disposal and integration of subsidiaries* 0 0 0 (3) (3) 0
Share of profit/ (loss) of joint venture adjusted for elimination of margin earned on
asset related transactions with joint venture*
(37) (45) (23) (47) (152) (30)
Operting income 349 360 370 340 1,419 312
% of revenues 11.3% 11.5% 11.9% 9.9% 11.1% 9.9%
Finance costs, net (69) (75) (59) (88) (291) (80)
22 25 21 20 88 21
(36) (148) (36)
- Interest income
- Interest expense on lease liabilities (37) (38) (37)
- Other interest expense and financial charges (37) (43) (40) (49) (169) (51)
- Discounting expense (18) (19) (12) (22) (71) (19)
- Foreign exchange gains/ (losses)
Income tax
1
(53)
0
(54)
9
(57)
(1)
(51)
9
(215)
5
(41)

* Labour expenses, other external purchases and other operating incomes & expenses exclude adjustment due to employment termination program and some costs related to acquisition, disposal and integration of subsidiaries, and for elimination of margin earned on transactions with joint venture.

**In 2Q 2024 D&A includes 1 million impairment of rights of perpetual usufruct of land historically recognised as property, plant and equipment, subsequently reclassified to right-of-use assets.

Orange Polska Group key performance indicators

Customer base (in thousands) 2024
1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 1Q
B2C convergent customers 1,718 1,738 1,755 1,785 1,800
Fixed broadband access
Fibre 1,394 1,450 1,495 1,566 1,605
ADSL 430 410 389 368 349
VDSL 383 368 352 336 322
Wireless for fixed 620 622 622 621 622
Retail broadband - total 2,827 2,849 2,857 2,892 2,898
o/w B2C convergent 1,718 1,738 1,755 1,785 1,800
TV client base
IPTV 900 911 925 940 954
DTH (TV over Satellite) 52 48 45 41 39
TV client base - total 953 959 969 981 993
o/w B2C convergent 847 855 865 878 890
Mobile accesses
Post-paid
Mobile Handset 8,989 9,061 9,129 9,195 9,271
Mobile Broadband 602 593 589 572 561
M2M 3,706 3,927 4,278 4,530 4,801
Total post-paid 13,298 13,580 13,996 14,297 14,634
o/w B2C convergent 3,100 3,130 3,159 3,207 3,229
Pre-paid 4,409 4,358 4,371 4,311 4,262
Total 17,706 17,939 18,366 18,608 18,895
Fibre households connectable 8,205 8,504 8,705 8,911 9,159
Wholesale customers
WLR 165 160 154 148 143
Bitstream access 193 199 206 212 221
o/w fibre 127 134 144 156 165
LLU 27 25 24 22 22
Fixed telephony accesses
PSTN 1,098 1,068 1,037 1,002 970
VoIP 1,295 1,300 1,306 1,314 1,322
Total retail main lines 2,393 2,367 2,343 2,316 2,291
o/w B2C convergent 975 980 985 992 998
o/w B2C PSTN convergent 5 4 4 4 4
o/w B2C VoIP convergent 971 976 981 989 994
Quarterly ARPO in PLN per month 2024 2025
1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 1Q
Convergent services B2C 121.8 123.3 126.0 126.2 127.0
YoY % 4.7% 4.0% 5.0% 4.7% 4.2%
Fixed services only - broadband 65.5 66.0 66.8 67.2 68.5
YoY % 4.0% 3.0% 3.5% 3.1% 4.6%
Mobile services only 22.0 22.8 23.3 23.2 23.5
YoY % 4.3% 4.3% 4.0% 5.0% 6.8%
Post-paid excl M2M 27.8 28.3 28.7 28.4 28.3
Mobile Handset 29.4 29.8 30.3 29.9 29.8
YoY % 1.6% 1.7% 1.6% 1.5% 1.3%
Mobile Broadband 11.7 11.7 11.7 11.6 11.5
Pre-paid 13.5 14.7 15.2 15.4 16.1
Fixed services only - voice 35.7 35.4 35.6 35.5 35.4
Other mobile operating statistics 2024
1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 1Q
DATA AUPU in GB
post-paid 10.4 11.9 10.9 10.9 10.9
pre-paid 11.7 12.2 12.5 13.4 13.9
blended 10.8 12.0 11.4 11.7 11.8
Quarterly mobile customer churn rate (%)
post-paid 2.0 1.8 1.9 2.3 2.0
pre-paid 10.9 11.5 11.1 11.0 10.3
Employment structure of Group as reported 2024 2025
Active full time equivalents (end of period) 1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 1Q
Orange Polska 8,956 8,810 8,613 8,554 8,545
50% of Networks 342 345 351 373 371
Total 9,298 9,155 8,964 8,927 8,915

Terms used:

ARPO – average revenue per offer

Churn rate – the number of customers who disconnect from a network divided by the weighted average number of customers in a given period.

Convergent services – Revenues from B2C convergent offers (excluding equipment sales). A convergent offer is defined as an offer combining at least a broadband access (xDSL, FTTx, cable or wireless for fixed) and a mobile voice contract (excluding MVNOs) with a financial benefit. Convergent services revenues do not include incoming and visitor roaming revenues.

Convergent services B2C ARPO – The average monthly revenues from convergent services generated by retail customers (B2C) divided by the average number of B2C convergent customers in a given period.

Data Average Usage per User ( Data AUPU) – The average monthly total usage of gigabytes divided by the average number of mobile SIM cards (ex M2M and mobile broadband) in a given period.

Fixed broadband-only services – Revenues from fixed broadband offers (excluding B2C convergent offers and equipment sales), including TV and VoIP services.

Fixed broadband-only services ARPO – The average monthly revenues from fixed broadband only services divided by the average number of accesses in a given period.

Household connectable with fibre - an apartment in multi-family building or a single family house within the reach of our fibre to the home service that allows to provide service with a speed of at least 300Mb/s

Mobile-only services – Revenues from mobile offers (excluding consumer market convergent offers) and Machine to Machine (M2M) connectivity. Mobile-only services revenues do not include equipment sales and incoming and visitor roaming revenues.

Mobile-only services ARPO – The average monthly retail revenues from mobile only services excluding M2M connectivity, divided by the average number of SIM cards (excluding M2M) in a given period.

Mobile-only broadband ARPO – The average monthly retail revenues from SIM cards dedicated to mobile broadband access (excluding B2C convergent offers and equipment sales) divided by the average number of these SIM cards in a given period.

Mobile-only handset ARPO – The average monthly retail revenues from SIM cards dedicated to mobile handset access (excluding B2C convergent offers and equipment sales) divided by the average number of these SIM cards in a given period.

ROCE- Return on capital employed = EBIT (ex. extraordinary items) / (Shareholder's Equity + Average net debt)

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