Telekom Romania Mobile
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| Telekom | |
| Formerly | Cosmorom (1999-2005) Cosmote (2005-2014) |
| Company type | Joint-stock company |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Headquarters | Bucharest, Romania |
Key people | Miroslav Majoroš (CEO) |
| Services | Mobile phone telecommunications |
| Revenue |  €453.078 million (2018) |
| –€141.844 million (2018) | |
| Parent | OTE (70%) |
| Website | Official website |
Telekom Romania Mobile Communications is a mobile network company that operates together with Telekom Romania Communications under the Telekom brand. Both companies are majority owned by OTE, which in turn is controlled by Deutsche Telekom. The company was founded in 1999 and almost every year had financial losses. In 2020 it had 4.65 million customers, of which approximately 25% with a subscription.[1]
Rumors about the sale of both Telekom companies by OTE in Romania have appeared since February 2017 but the public announcement was made only in 2019. The buyer for the mobile company could be Digi, which agreed with OTE in March 2020, after previously wanting to buy only the infrastructure and radio licenses.[2]
History
Cosmorom
The company was launched as Cosmorom in 1999 by Romtelecom and entered service in april 2000. In the first years, the company failed to gain market share. Having around 1% market share and financial losses, there were talks about the selling of the company, but the decision was delayed several times due to disagreement between OTE, the majority owner of Romtelecom and the Romanian Government.[3] In January 2004 Romtelecom decided to sell a majority stake in the company. Two of the purchase offers received were from Mobikom (now A1 Telekom Austria) and Deutsche Telekom's Matev from Hungary.[4]
Cosmote Romania
In July 2005 OTE's mobile division Cosmote decided to buy 70% of shares in Cosmorom from Romtelecom and relaunch the mobile operator under its management.[5] In December 2005 had approximately 50,000 subscribers while Orange and Vodafone each had 6 million. The process of relaunching, started with the rebranding as Cosmote on 6 December 2005. On 2 march 2006 started a wide advertising campaign on prepaid market, offering a limited number of SIM cards with 2000 free minutes within the network per month for a low price (3 euro).[6] The network could no longer cope with the large number of users and network failures often occurred. So on March 20, the company announced that the offer will work until March 31 only for people who have activated the service until March 22.
On 30 June 2009 Cosmote acquired Zapp Mobile, a CMDA mobile operator with 374,000 subscribers, who also had a 3G license.[7] Following Zapp acquisition, Cosmote launched 3G service. At the end of 2013, Cosmote Romania had 6.1 million customers, of which 25.9% were postpaid subscribers and the rest were users of prepaid services.
Telekom Romania
On 12 September 2014, Romtelecom and Cosmote România unified mobile and fixed services under a single brand and changed their respective legal names to Telekom Romania Communications and Telekom Romania Mobile Communications.[8] The company tried to attract pospaid customers, including with blundling mobile and fixed services, but the market share dropped. The company raised prices, but financial losses continued.[9]
Market share
| Result | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Market share | 0.5% | 7% | 11% | 23% | over 23% | 24% | 24% | 23.8% | 22.9% | ||||||
| Customers (milion) | 0.048 | 1.23 | 3.6 | 5.9 | 6.92 | 6.9 | 6.5 | 6.368 | 6.153 | 6.047 | 5.922 | 5.722 | 5.258 | 5.360 | 4.916 |
Radio Frequency Summary
The following is a list of known frequencies used by comapny.
| MCC | MNC | Frequency | Band Number | Protocol (Downlink/Uplink speed) | Class | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 226 | 03 | 900 MHz | 8 | GSM/GPRS/EDGE | 2G | |
| 226 | 03 | 1800 MHz | 3 | GSM/GPRS/EDGE | 2G | |
| 226 | 06 | 900 MHz | 8 | UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+ (21.6 Mbit/s/5.76 Mbit/s) | 3G | |
| 226 | 06 | 2100 MHz | 1 | UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+/DC-HSPA+ (43.2 Mbit/s/5.76 Mbit/s) | 3G | |
| 226 | 03 | 800 MHz | 20 | LTE (37.5 Mbit/s) | 4G | |
| 226 | 03 | 900 MHz | 8 | LTE (37.5 Mbit/s) | 4G | |
| 226 | 03 | 1800 MHz | 3 | LTE (150 Mbit/s/50 Mbit/s) | 4G |
References
- ^ "Afacerile grupului Telekom în România, la care statul este acționar minoritar, au continuat să scadă și în primul trimestru din acest an". hotnews.ro. 9 May 2019.
- ^ "Telekom: Aproape de un Acord cu RCS & RDS pentru Vanzarea Diviziei Mobile". idevice.ro. 2 March 2020.>
- ^ "Destinul Cosmorom ramane o mare necunoscuta". capital.ro. 11 December 2003.
- ^ "Trei oferte pentru cumpararea Cosmorom". capital.ro. 29 January 2004.
- ^ ""CosmOTE" a transferat banii pentru "Cosmorom"". bursa.ro. 11 July 2020.
- ^ "ÎNCEPE REVOLUȚIA! COSMOTE lansează 2000 de minute lunar în rețea pentru numai 3 euro pe lună". comunic.ro. 2 March 2006.
- ^ "UPDATE: Cosmote cumpara Zapp in Romania, pentru circa 207 milioane euro". hotnews.ro. 30 June 2009.
- ^ "COSMOTE şi ROMTELECOM devin un singur brand, TELEKOM". evz.ro. 14 August 2014.
- ^ "Telekom Romania To Increase The Price For All Fix And Mobile Services". romaniajournal.ro. 6 March 2019.