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accept earning less and less per client

December 17, 2025 by usatoday24

Digi Spain Telecom has completed its transformation from SL to SA, from a Limited Company to a Public Limited Company, as stated in the Official Gazette of the Commercial Registry. The change, approved on December 15, paves the way for an IPO in 2026 that seeks to raise up to 750 million euros by selling 30% of the Spanish subsidiary. The context. Spanish commercial legislation prevents a limited company from being listed on the stock market. Only public limited companies can issue securities that are freely traded in the markets, hence this change is essential to ring the bell. Why is it important. Behind this movement there is a radical strategic commitment. While the three large Spanish operators fight to increase the average income per customer… …Digi does exactly the opposite and is winning the game. In 2025 it has snatched 932,000 customers from its rivals, but its profitability per user has fallen from 8.7 to 7.8 euros, a decrease of 10% in an amount already much lower than that of competitors, closer to 20 euros. The bet. The Romanian operator has chosen a volume over margin strategy that goes against the traditional logic of the sector. He would rather have 10 million customers paying him very little than 5 million paying him little, and the numbers are proving him right, at least for now: It is already the fourth operator with 10.2 million users and it is hot on the heels of Vodafone. In figures. The results of this strategy are overwhelming: 1.5 million ports accumulated in 2025, 23% more than in 2024. 681 million euros of income, 19% more. 70 own stores in Spain, more than double that of the previous year. Average income per client of 7.8 euros, compared to figures that are around 15-20 euros in large operators. Between the lines. The IPO will be what definitively validates (or not) the model. If investors buy shares and validate that narrow margin strategy, Digi will have shown that in a saturated market like the Spanish one, the only way for a fourth operator is to be radically cheaper. And less profitable. But more massive. If this does not happen, Digi would see the sign that its growth model does not convince to finance itself under better conditions. The background. The move to SA is not the only move paving the way for going public. Yes, but. The question now is how far ARPU (average revenue per customer) can fall before the model stops working. With less than 8 euros per customer, Digi is in uncharted territory for an operator with its own infrastructure. In Xataka | The Government has had an idea so that the next blackout does not leave us without mobile data: let the operators pay Featured image | Xataka with Mockuuups Studio

to what extent will we accept that AI cameras fine us

November 12, 2025 by usatoday24

Spain has begun to automate the surveillance of minor infractions with AI: Technology stops optimizing traffic and starts monitoring it. Why is it important. This marks a paradigm shift. Until now, urban AI was used to improve mobility (adjust traffic lights, predict traffic jams, reduce emissions). Now he goes from assistant to inspector. And it does so with a key nuance: it does not pursue major crimes or flagrant dangers, but rather small daily infractions that previously escaped control due to cost and surveillance capacity. AI reduces the marginal cost of sanctioning to practically zero. Once deployed, everyone can be observed all the time. The facts. The Barcelona pilot test involved four buses of lines H12 and D20 equipped with cameras that identify, through AI, vehicles blocking reserved lanes. In Madrid, the City Council has installed smart traffic lights that count pedestrians in real time and has announced systems that will detect seat belt use. The DGT has taken another step. It has deployed four cameras on the A-1, A-2, A-6 and A-42 highways that monitor the crossing of continuous lines. The system works with two cameras per section: one records the license plates at the beginning, another at the end. If a car changes lanes between both points, the fine is automatic. It is 200 euros per violation. In figures. Spain already has 3,395 devices to control violationsaccording to Faconauto. Of them, more than 1,300 are DGT surveillance points between fixed and mobile radars. Added to this are more than 200 cameras that monitor belts and mobile phones, Pegasus helicopters and now these new continuous line detection systems. Barcelona has not yet activated the sanctions on its buses, but the volume of violations detected (80 daily in just four vehicles) anticipates what is coming. Between the lines. There is a delicate balance that is being renegotiated without us having barely opened the debate. On the one hand, more compliance with fewer agents: administrative efficiency is indisputable. On the other, the sensation of an omnipresent eye. The difference with the classic radar is not so much technical as range. The radar monitors specific points where there is proven risk. These new systems turn the entire city into a guarded zone: each bus is an inspector, each intersection a control point. AI does not change what is sanctioned, it changes where and how much. Move from selective surveillance to ubiquitous surveillance. Yes, but. To what extent will citizens accept being recorded and punished by a machine? It’s not just a legal issue, but a cultural one: trust in the algorithm versus human interpretation. Who audits the system’s decisions? What room is there for error or appeal? Technology is not neutral: each deployment reflects political priorities about what deserves to be monitored and sanctioned. The big question. What is relevant is not whether this is good or bad in the abstract, but what it tells us about the new contract between citizen, city and AI. AI stops being an abstraction and enters the daily urban experience. The citizen goes from user to observed subject. And the unresolved question is who sees, who decides, who corrects and, above all, how far we are willing to go when automating the chase is so easy and cheap. In Xataka | The “made in China” business of the DGT’s V-16 beacons: homologating the same product 24 times and selling it under different brands Featured image | Barcelona City Council

Cruz Azul did not accept that Martín Anselmi said goodbye in the duel vs. Puebla

January 23, 2025 by usatoday24

Once the departure of Martin Anselmi As technical director of Cruz Azul, the celestial board headed by engineer Víctor Velázquez made the decision to cut corners and prevent the Argentine coach from saying goodbye to the fans next Saturday against the Puebla. In this way, the Uruguayan Vicente Sánchez, who directs the Under 23 team of the Maquina Celeste, He will be in charge of directing against the fringe squad on date three of the Clausura 2025 tournament and on matchday 4 against Necaxa, pending the decision of which coach will take charge of the rest of the tournament in relief of Anselmi. The above could be learned through a source worthy of all credit at Cruz Azul who told The Opinionunder the condition of anonymity, that Anselmi’s decision generated a lot of annoyance in the Cruz Azul high command, For this reason, they have taken a tough attitude against the South American strategist. considering that he failed to fulfill the commitment he had made and where he guaranteed that his word was above any contract. The same source revealed to this publishing house that although it is true that in the contract There is a contract termination clause for a total of $5 million dollars (approximately 100 million Mexican pesos), Cruz Azul directors were confident that Anselmi would respect the four-year contract he signed six months after arriving at the Celeste Machine. In this agreement, the cement board met all its demands and made him the second highest-paid coach in Mexican soccer in a monthly amount of $130,000 dollars per month (more than 2.5 million pesos per month), where Anselmi even came out to say publicly that his word was above any contract and that he would respect the agreement. The offer from Porto arrived in November In more data, which could be accessed, It was assured that Martín Anselmi received the offer from Porto since November pastjust when the Celeste Machine showed a decline in its football level. We were also told that Anselmi had already been preparing his departure and that he still decided to demand that the board hire several reinforcements such as Jesús Orozco Chiquete, Omar Campos, Luka Romero and Mateusz Bogusz, who together with the players he brought in since his arrival such as Luis Romo, Willer Ditta, Kevin Mier, Gonzalo Piovi , Giorgios Giakoumakis and Jorge Sánchez, made Cruz Azul spend, according to unofficial figures, around $70 million dollars (1,450 million Mexican pesos). 👎🚂 “IF YOU KNEW THIS SINCE NOVEMBER, YOU WERE VERY UNGRATEFUL TO CRUZ AZUL” Martín Anselmi leaves La Maquina, but with a very bitter taste 🙄 ❌ “COINCENTLY IN THE LIGUILLA THE TEAM FALLS, WHEN THE APPROACH CAME WITH PORTO”#LUP pic.twitter.com/BU3Yek1g3f — FOX Sports MX (@FOXSportsMX) January 23, 2025 They even authorized the departure of Luis Romo due to differences within the locker room, all with the aim of keeping the team fully involved in the competition for the title in the Clausura 2025 tournament, only for it to come out at this point with the decision to go to Porto in Portugal. For now and in the latest details that were accessed, it is stated that Cruz Azul demands cash payment of the contract termination clause. and will not allow the Portuguese to want to pay the money in payments. The candidates So with this, Cruz Azul will dedicate itself to the search for the new coach, but next Saturday Vicente Sánchez will appear on the light blue bench against Puebla, while they seek to specify the arrival of another Argentine like Gabriel Milito or the Uruguayan Diego Alonso. It is true that the names of the Portuguese Renato Paiva have been used, as well as the Mexicans Jaime Lozano and Efraín Álvarez. Continue reading:– In Portugal they don’t know who Martín Anselmi is-Diego Alonso and Vicente Sánchez the candidates to lead Cruz Azul – Is Cruz Azul left without a coach? They assure that Martín Anselmi will coach Porto

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