Romanian Mobile Telephony Customers Top Country Population Number

Romania’s top three mobile telephony operators, Orange, Vodafone and Cosmote, had together 22.236 million customers at the end of 2007, exceeding by over half a million the population in the country, of 21.565 million people.

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Cosmote Romania, the local unit of Greek mobile network operator Cosmote, attracted 2.386 million new customers in 2007, triple compared to 2006. In 2007, Orange Romania and Vodafone Romania attracted 1.77 million customers (+22% on year) and 1.09 million customers (+14%), respectively.

Other mobile telephony operators on the Romanian market are Telemobil, which operates Zapp Mobile network and RCS&RDS, which started operations on mobile telephony market in October last year.

The Zapp Mobile network had 470,000 customers at the end of 2006, and the figures exceeded half a million customers in July 2007, according to Telemobil data.

“The overall numbers for 2007 cannot be published yet,” Telemobil Corporate Affairs Manager, Carmen Lazar, said Wednesday.

The officials at RCS&RDS could not be reached for comments at presstime.

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