Some 2,500 iPhone terminals have been sold in Cosmote and Germanos stores since mid-December, Cosmote Romania commercial manager Panos Makris announced on Thursday. read more...

A notification about the transaction by which Romanian telecom operator Romtelecom takes over the subscriber base and other assets of DTH Television Grup, the owner of digital television Boom TV, has reached the Competition Council. read more...

Romania's IT market shrunk by 25% last year, to EUR800 million, following a 20% decline in 2009, said Liviu Dragan, member on the board of the Software and Services Industry Employers' Association (ANIS), in a press conference. read more...

Romtelecom, number three on the Romanian TV services market, will pay between 7.3 and 8 million euros (VAT-less) to get the 95,000 subscribers of Boom TV - a satellite television platform operated by DTH Television Grup. read more...

Romanian telecom company Romtelecom signed last week a contract to take over the subscriber base and other actives of DTH Television Grup, the owner of digital satellite television Boom TV, for which it offered 8 million euro, Adrian Lotrean, partner at Transilvania Insolvency House, the judicial administrator of the company, told HotNews.ro. read more...

Greek group Cosmote has invested almost EUR1 billion in Romania since its launch in December 2005, growing from 0.4% to a 24% market share, while revenue reached EUR468.6 million at the end of 2010. read more...

UPC lost over 93,000 clients in Romania last year, reaching 1.15 million subscribers and a fall on all segments - TV, internet and wired telephony, according to data published by owner Liberty Global. read more...

Telecommunications operator RCS&RDS, controlled by Oradea businessman Zoltan Teszari, 41, is one step away from buying rival UPC, formerly Astral, its fierce rival for over 15 years on the cable market, in a transaction that could amount to around 300 million dollars. read more...

Romanian company RCS&RDS, one of the biggest telecom operators in Central and Eastern Europe, has also launched mobile Internet services on the Hungarian market, according to data on the company's website. read more...

Romanian exports of IT products and services grew 10% in 2010, to around EUR500 million, said Valerica Dragomir, executive manager of the Software and Services Industry Employers' Association (ANIS). read more...

Sales of electronics in Romania plummeted in 2009-2010, with the impact of the crisis being stronger than in countries like Greece and Ireland, Laurent Abadie, chairman and CEO for Europe of Panasonic told ZF in an interview. read more...

Ericsson Telecommunications Romania, the domestic subsidiary of Sweden's provider of telecom equipment and services for fixed and mobile telephony, has come to an over 1,200-people headcount, after taking over 400 Romtelecom employees. read more...

The e-Romania platform will become operational this summer, Minister of Communications and Information Society Valerian Vreme told a news conference at the weekend. read more...

Romania’s largest fixed line telephony operator Romtelecom and mobile telecom company Cosmote Romania could merge before the state starts procedures to list a 46% stake in Romtelecom on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, IT&C Minister Valerian Vreme said Friday. read more...

Guido Kerkhoff, Deutsche Telekom manager who had been in charge with the CEE operations of Europe's biggest communications group since 2009, has unexpectedly announced his decision to leave the company three years before his term is due to end. read more...

Orange and Vodafone, the biggest mobile phone operators on the Romanian market, were fined 63 million euros by the Competition Council for abuse of dominant position, this being the biggest fine ever levied by the institution. read more...

Romania’s Competition Council fined mobile operators Orange Romania and Vodafone Romania EUR63 million for abuse of dominant position, Competition Council president Bogdan Chiritoiu said Tuesday. read more...

Romanian authorities will present, next week, on February 23rd to the European Commission the model proposed to use 84 million euro of EU funds to develop an internet broadband solutin in poor areas of the country, Communications Ministry officials declared for Hotnews.ro. read more...

Romanian Communications Minister Valerian Vreme said Saturday that his ministry will carry out a EUR84 million project (funded by the European Union) to provide Internet access to the remaining unconnected areas in the country. read more...

Romanian Communications Minister Valerian Vreme said Saturday that the e-Romania platform should be operational by mid-year and local communities will be able to connect to the platform according to certain rules. read more...