Sunday, October 22, 2006

26 percent growth for Romanian telecom market


Romanian phone calls built up to over 10 billion minutes during the first six months of the year alone, said Dan Georgescu, president of the National Telecomm Authority. The user traffic increased 26.6% during the first quarter, year on year.

Romanians also sent over 1 billion short messages and 13 million multimedia messages. 66% of all mobile phone users employ prepaid cards.

In 2005, the GNP increased 4.1% in real terms, while the telecomm market grew 23%, up to over 3 billion euros at the end of 2005.

During the first six months of 2006, the alternative wired telephony reached 15% of the market, representing a 50% growth year over year - 650.000 lines out of a total of 4.4 millions.

HotNews.ro, Oct 18, 2006

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