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15.05.2008« [telecommunications — телекоммуникация — telekommunikation]
romania — romanian fixed line market data published
The Romanian National Regulatory Authority for Communications and Information Technology has reported that RomTelecom, controlled by the Greek OTE group, dominated Romania’s fixed line market in 2007. RomTelecom claimed 71.3% of all fixed lines equating to 3.03 million lines for 2.73 million subscribers. In second place Bucharest-based Romania Cable System (RCS&RDS) reported a million subscribers, while third placed UPC Romania had just 112,000 telephony customers.
Source: TeleGeography's CommsUpdate
ote
Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A. (OTE) is a full-service telecommunications provider. The Company provides local, long-distance and international fixed-line telecommunications services to Greek and foreign businesses, consumers and government agencies. OTE also offers mobile telephony, Internet access, international subscriber digital network, high-speed data telecommunications, asynchronous digital subscriber line-based broadband services, sales of equipment and asynchronous transfer mode, as well as leased lines, maritime and satellite telecommunications, telex and telegraphy, audiotex, telecards and directory services. In addition, the Company is active in fields, such as real estate, advertisement, the provision of vocational trainings, consultancy services and information technology. The Company operates through its subsidiaries in counties, such as Cyprus, Romania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania and the United Kingdom. OTE is headquartered in Athens, Greece.
rcs&rds
RCS&RDS is one of the largest Romanian and Eastern European telecoms, offering nation wide satellite television, cable television, cable internet, VOIP, and 3G services. The company, which is based in Bucharest, Romania, was formed in April 2005 by the de jure merging of Romania Cable Systems (RCS) and Romania Data Systems (RDS) (the companies were under the same ownership from the very beginning and operating de facto as a single unit long before that). As of 2007, it has 1,2 million customers for the cable TV service, 250,000 for the landline phone system, and 500,000 for its broadband Internet service.
romtelecom
Romtelecom SA is a telecommunications company based in Romania. The Company provides fixed line telecommunication services, local, long distance and international call services, supplementary services, such as caller line identity presentation (CLIP), caller line identity restriction (CLIR), three-party call, call waiting, call divert, preset call and outgoing calls barring, integrated services into the digital network (ISDN-2 and ISDN-30), voice mail services, including Voces and Voces Pro, as well as Internet services, using ClickNet for Internet dial-up and BeOnline for Web hosting services, as well as digital television services. The Company also offers public telephone services from payphones, including telephone cards and the leasing of telephone booths. The Company is headquartered in Bucharest, Romania.
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