| NOTAS: | "" 2005 should stand out in the history of Romanian communications as the year when the users started exercising their right to choose: we have started using solid figures when talking about the market share of the fixed telephony alternative providers, which increased eight times in only one year, reaching 10%. We have stepped over an important threshold in the sector of mobile telephony, too: more than half of the population now use mobile telephones. There are more than 5 million Internet users, subscribing to more than 900 providers. The most important step forward was registered by broadband penetration, which reached 3.5%, exceeding the penetration rate of some EU member countries and placing Romania on top of the list of SEE countries. The field of communications continued to develop, thus proving – in the third year from the full liberalisation of the market – a sound reaction to competition. More than 2000 providers of communications networks and services operate on the market umpired by ANRC. Big foreign investors confirmed the development prospects of Romanian communications, investing in the Romanian market or strengthening their presence here, stimulated by the market potential and by the modern and predictable regulatory frame. The regulations for the Romanian communications market observe the Community standards and the European Union encouraged the measures for promoting competition set out by ANRC.…" |
