Court has decided to delay its decision on the recent award of a mobile licence to fixed line operator RomTelecom. Although the Govt went ahead with the award but the legal challenge to the auction which had been launched by cellular operators Orange, Vodafone, RCS&RDS and Zapp/Telemobil. Argument from these firms is that the licence fee for the new permit is well below what they paid for their own cellular licences. RomTelecom is hailing the court’s decision to delay a ruling as a victory.
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Court postpones mobile licence ruling (Romania)
- September 10th, 2008
- 12:51 pm
Orange & Vodafone have a new rival, Rometelecom (Romania)
- September 8th, 2008
- 6:50 am
Rometelecom has won the competition licence put up for sale by the Romanian state, media reported. The competition in telecom market is heated up as Romtelecom will be able to provide wireless telephony and Internet services in areas so far covered exclusively by mobile phone operators, a business that brings out the revenues worth tens of millions of euros per year. Official announcement will be made on 8th September ‘08 by
National Regulatory Authority for Communications and Information Technology (ANRCTI).
The flip side of the story shows a different scenario, legal battle started by Orange, Vodafone, RCS&RDS and Zapp, in order to block the race for securing the mobile communications licence. It is anticipated that this battle will intensifyconsidering that, after the announcement of the winning offer, ANRCTI has two weeks at its disposal to effectively hand over the licence to Romtelecom. Four Operators are of a view to shelve the procedures of awarding mobile licence. The next date is set for 9th September in the court case filed by the four operators.
Cellcos targets 6.1 million subscribers by 2009-2010 (Romania)
- August 7th, 2008
- 6:12 am
Since the launch of Romanian 3G operator RCS&RDS its customer base has exceeded 1.1 million in time span of 10 months. Mobile Market of Romania is a home for 5 wireless operator and the increase in number of subscriber is quite astonishing. At the end of 2007, firm reported 200,000 subscribers which has grown to 800,000 with the begining of May. It is anticipated that customer total may surpass 1.5 million by the end of 2008. RCS&RDS says it now has networks in 180 cities across Romania.
In contrast to this rival cellco Cosmote says it is targeting 5.4 million subscribers by the end of 2008, up from 1.8 million at the start of the year and 4.6 million at end-June. According to a media report, Targets for end of 2009-2010 are 6.1 million and 6.6 million respectively.
