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Broadband Internet to continue rising in 2010

The number of broadband Internet connections, from both landline and mobile points, will continue to rise in 2010, Chairman of the National Regulatory and Administrative Authority for Communications (ANCOM) Catalin Marinescu told a specialist conference on Tuesday.

'Romania's electronic communications industry has weathered better the 2009 crisis, although it was affected. The highest rises were in broadband Internet. Thus, the number of landline Internet connections stood at 2.8 million, up 12 percent from the year before. Out of the total, 2.5 million connections were for individual users. On the other hand, the number of mobile Internet connections reached 2.5 million, up 66 percent from the year before. We are expecting both segments to post significant increases in 2010 as well,' said Marinescu.

Despite the rises in broadband Internet connections, Romania is still somewhere half way from European averages, which indicates the existence of important growth potentials in 2010.

Marinescu added that traffic on landline phones declined 14 percent in 2009, a trend that will probably continue, because the free minutes of calls offered by mobile operators and mobility win customers.

'The telephony market is mature. The penetration rate of mobile telephony is 124 percent, and there are not very much growth resources left for it. The offerings of all the providers of such services are designed to keep the existing customers, and I believe that more offerings will come because there is a cut-throat competition on the Romanian retail market,' said the ANCOM official.

Marinescu indicated that thanks to offerings and promotions of phone operators Romanians are talking increasingly more. In 2009, they talked an average of 140 minutes a day, 28 minutes more than one year before. An important rise was recorded in the short message service (SMS), with the short texts sent having doubled to 7.4 billion in 2009. In 2009, a Romanian user sent 25 short texts a month on the average.

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