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Romania's mobile telephony operators in 2010 lost 300m euros in revenues against 2009 amid recession, VAT hike, the austerity moves and the first fall in history in the number of users, according to the data included in the annual report of France Telecom, the owner of Orange Romania, the biggest telecom operator domestically. read more...
Italian giant Telecom Italia has sent the owners of Romanian company Prime Telecom an offer to buy in the hope it will succeed in taking over one of the last independent companies on the market, whose main asset is the optical fibre network installed in all county seats of Romania. read more...
Romtelecom has become no. 2 on the Romanian TV services market, leaving behind the Americans at UPC, after it bought the nearly 80,000 satellite TV clients of Digital Cable Systems (AKTA). read more...
Orange Romania will benefit directly from the strategic partnerships agreed between France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom and currently the two parties examine the opportunity and type of future synergies, Orange Romania technical director Madalin Suceanu said on Monday. read more...
eMag, the biggest IT&C retailer, saw its first batch of 80 iPad 2 Apple tablets imported to Romania sold out "almost straight away" with the company expecting the next batches to sell quickly as well, and amid pre-orders from a further 720 people at the end of last week. read more...
The salaries of employees in IT companies in western Romania will go up by an average 10% this year after last year specialists in the field saw their wages up by more than inflation (10.10%), shows the latest salary survey conducted by human resources group AIMS Human Capital. read more...
The Romanian communications market is saturated on certain segments, but there continue to be a lot of areas, such as Internet services, where the potential for growth remains significant, Babak Fouladi, Chief Technical Officer of Vodafone, no. 2 on the Romanian mobile telephony market, told ZF. read more...
American IT giant Hewlett Packard says it will reach 3,600 employees in Romania at the end of the year and if demand on foreign markets rises, the company could open a second services centre somewhere other than in Bucharest. read more...
Following the tragic events affecting Japan, Romtelecom decided to allow free calls from its network to any landline or mobile phones in Japan, the operator announced on Friday. All Romtelecom users including individuals and companies will have this facility available starting Saturday, March 19 for a 30 day period. read more...
Three of the top five leading criteria based on which a company or an institution chooses its provider of mobile telephony services have to do with fees, reveal data from a survey conducted by Gallup between March and April 2010 for the Communications Regulatory Authority (ANCOM). read more...
A market survey conducted by Gallup in 2010 reveals the huge gap that separates urban and rural areas in Romania: 78% of families that live in the countryside do not have access to the Internet and 47% do not have a fixed line. read more...
Telecom operators in Romania are ready to invest more in service networks this year, feeling that the worst of the crisis is now over and that companies and consumers are starting to loosen up their budgets, says Michele Gressani, CEO of the local subsidiary of the world's largest telecom equipment producer, Swedish-held Ericsson in an interview to ZF. read more...
Romanian telecom operator Romtelecom launched on Wednesday the beta version of a new TV content platform on the Internet, DolceTV.ro. read more...
RCS&RDS, the telecom operator controlled by Oradea businessman Zoltan Teszari, managed to obtain two loans worth a cumulated 368 million dollars (206 million dollars and 125 million euros respectively) from a group of banks, to refinance part of its debts and to have money for investments. read more...
The mobile Internet services market and the smartphone sales are still in the early stages of development in Romania, so both segments will see significant growth rates over the next five years, say officials of Cosmote - no. 3 on the mobile communications market, who hope the effervescence on the two segments will help the company narrow the gap between revenues and profit that separates it from market leaders Orange and Vodafone. read more...
RCS&RDS operator is considering the possibility of rival Romtelecom interfering in the fight for UPC Romania, which would complicate the battle for the acquisition of the second-largest operator on the television services market, with 1.2 million clients. read more...
Romania's Government wants to award six digital terrestrial television licenses, including one required to ensure 60% population coverage and 50% land coverage by March 31, 2012, says an act drafted by the Communications Ministry. read more...
Romanian PM Emil Boc and Communications minister Valerian Vreme scheduled a meeting at noon on Friday with the head of Vodafone group Vittorio Colao and the head of Vodafone Romania Inaki Berroeta. read more...
A potential acquisition of UPC Romania by RCS&RDS, which would turn the new company into the owner of the biggest private communications infrastructure and the undisputed leader of the TV and Internet markets could be under scrutiny by the Competition Council for as much as six months, and the authority might require RCS to drop certain operations, the officials of Muşat & Asociaţii and Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) told Ziarul Financiar. read more...
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