DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/65fab2/romania_telecoms) has announced the addition of the "Romania - Telecoms, IP Networks, Digital Media and Forecasts" report to their offering.
This report provides a comprehensive overview of trends and developments in Romania's telecommunications market. The report analyses the mobile, Internet, broadband, digital TV and converging media sectors.
The underdeveloped mobile content and applications market holds significant growth potential in coming years: mobile content and application usage is low, while increasing mobile broadband affordability and improving handset and network capabilities will encourage development and uptake.
Romtelecom's steady fall in revenue since has placed further pressure on the company to reduce its workforce, improve operations and increase efficiency. The company successfully reduced operating expenses since 2010 though competition from RCS&RDS and UPC Romania will continue to threaten its market share in most sectors.
CATV remains the most popular broadcasting platform in Romania, with some 6.7 million households able to access services. Although programming is offered by over 500 providers, the market is dominated by UPC Romania and RCS&RDS, which represent over 60% of total CATV subscribers. The number of subscribers has fallen steadily since 2008, threatening future revenue.
In the DTTV sector, ASO was set back to 2015 but during 2011 the Audiovisual Council has progressed with issuing digital TV licenses: the first multiplex will be granted by the end of 2012, the next three in 2013 and the last in late 2015 once analogue broadcasting has stopped.
Key developments:
- Weakened currency contributing to decline in telecom market revenue;
- OTE declines to buy government's share in Romtelecom;
- regulator proposes 2012 auction for national and regional BWA licences;
- government secures 84 million EU funding to extend broadband to unconnected areas of the country;
- UPC Romania extends 120Mb/s Business Fiber Power to 13 cities;
- low rural PC use poses brake for broadband take-up;
- new EU roaming tariffs come into effect;
- RCS&RDS upgrades its mobile broadband speeds to 14.4Mb/s in 20 cities
Data in this report is the latest available at the time of preparation and may not be for the current year.
Companies Mentioned:
- Boom TV
- Cosmote Romania
- DigiMobil
- DigiTV
- Dolce
- GTS Telecom
- Orange Romania
- RCS&RDS
- Romtelecom
- SN Radiocomunicatii
- Telemobil
- UPC Romania
- Vodafone Romania
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