Orange Romania to offer Samsung Galaxy S III for $388 (Romania)
Orange customers can now order Samsung Galaxy S III online via https://www.orange.ro/magazin-online/ exclusive online store, and from May 30 purchase the same from all Orange stores. The phone can be purchased at prices from $388 (VAT included).
The phone comes with new features which extend the scope of use, Galaxy S III redefines intelligence, becoming more than a phone. 4.8-inch touchscreen display and 2100 mAh battery provides a pleasant user experience. In addition to using Voice Function, users can order the phone to stop the alarm for a few minutes, can answer a call or you can reject, can start the music or the camera can tell when to shoot.
Also, Galaxy S III knows when users want to talk on the phone. So if they write an SMS and meanwhile decided to call the person, just go to your ear, and the Direct call will automatically dial.
Moreover, Galaxy S III makes managing and transferring photos much easier for owners to recognizing faces and link profiles using reference groups in the phone set. However, the function S Beam, they can instantly connect to another phone to transfer documents, contacts, images just by pasting the two devices. Sending files is made easy friends nearby, fast and even fun.
Galaxy S III will be available in two colors, white and blue.
Orange Armenia offers unique roaming discount in USA (Armenia, USA)
Telecom operator Orange has reshuffled the list of Orange Zone countries which will from now on include the USA. Now, while roaming on AT&T USA network, Orange customers can enjoy a unique $0.64 rate for all outgoing and incoming calls, SMS and GPRS. This is great news for those who travel to the USA.
The same tariff is available for other Orange Zone countries where customers can join the following networks: Orange France, Orange Spain, Orange United Kingdom, Orange Slovakia, Orange Austria, Orange Poland, Orange Romania, Orange Moldova, Orange Luxembourg, Orange Liechtenstein, Orange Switzerland as well as Mobistar Belgium.
To activate roaming customers just need to dial *121# before leaving the country.
Orange Romania offers transport service payment via SMS (Romania)
Orange Romania customers can now pay RATB subscription valid for one day and SMS to 7456, and the price is $2.3 per SMS. Payment may be made from any mobile phone. To purchase subscriptions for one day all-lines of transportation, customers send an SMS with the text “A” in 7456 and will immediately receive a code confirming the transaction.
Code received will be kept on the phone all day long, until the expiry of the subscription. SMS payment system for public transport travel surface was implemented for the first time in Alba Iulia since December 2010.
Since January, Orange Romania, in partnership with Metrorex launched payment system and access to rail transport by using the number 1700. Also, Orange customers can pay via SMS, landscaped parking area at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest and Bistrita city, Oradea, Resita, Satu Mare, Timisoara Tirgu Mures.
Romanian regulator to allow 3G across 2G bands
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The technical and administrative measures of the provision for deployment of 3G services using the 900MHz and 1800MHz frequency bands by the cellular operators has been completed by Romanian regulator the National Communications Authority (ANCOM).
The 3G coverage of Orange Romania, Vodafone Romania and Cosmote will now be improved across the entirety of their current footprint.
According to Catalin Marinescu, president of ANCOM, this measure is part of the authority’s stated intention to promote broadband development in Romania and along with the CDMA license awards in 2008 and the forthcoming review of local loop unbundling, the liberalization of spectrum in the 900MHz and 1800MHz bands will contribute to the increased penetration of mobile internet access.
Mobile phone operators’ traffic, 60 pc higher than landline operators’
Bucharest The average length of a call in landline phone network is approx 40 per cent higher than the mobile telephony, however the traffic of mobile phone operators is 60 per vent above the volume reported by landline phone companies, the trend going down on this last segment, yesterday announced in a press conference the National Communications Regulatory Authority (ANRC). According to ANRC, the length of the calls made by the clients of mobile phone operators totalled 6.5 billion minutes in H1, as compared to 4.11 billion minutes registered by landline phone operators. The preliminary data showed a decline in the number of minutes used in landline networks, from 4.24 billion minutes, at the end of June 2005, to 4.11 billion minutes four months ago,??? ANRC president Dan Georgescu (photo) mentioned. He added that in the case of mobile phone networks, the total length of calls increased approx 57 per cent, to 6.5 billion minutes. The average length of a call in landline networks is 2.27 minutes, as compared to 1.63 minutes in mobile networks. Following the intensification of competition in this field, the length of an international call is 3.13 minutes,??? Georgescu said. ANRC data also showed that mobile phone operators had, at the end of June, 14.86 million clients, more than 9.7 million using prepaid cards. The penetration rate of mobile telephony reaches 70 per cent. At the end of June 2005, GSM operators had a portfolio of 11.38 million clients. There are four mobile phone operators on the market, namely Orange Romania, Vodafone Romania, Cosmote Romania and Telemobil (Zapp). The first two operators hold approx 93 per cent of the number of clients.
Varujan Pambuccian: legislation in telecommunications field must be modified
ANRC must adapt the legislation to the new realities in the field and rethink the most relevant concepts of the market, stated the president of the Commission for IT&C within the Chamber of Deputies, Varujan Pambuccian. If we take into consideration RomTelecom case, it is obvious it can no longer be considered a dominant operator, as it was perceived in 2003. All regulations that targeted the national landline phone operator matched a reality that ended several months ago,??? said Pambuccian. These statements come as a response to the criticism launched on Sunday by juridical and PR manager of RomTelecom, Catalin Dima, regarding the legislation in the field of telecommunications, which allegedly created an imbalance in this activity sector and hindered the company in competing with mobile and TV cable operators on equal terms.
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