Astral Telecom

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Astral Telecom S.A.
Type Public company
Founded 1993
Headquarters Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Key people Richard Anderssen CEO
Industry Telecommunications
Products Fixed-line telephony,
Internet services, Cable TV
Revenue $63.07 million (2004)
Employees 2,300 (2005)
Website http://www.astral.ro

Astral Telecom S.A. is a Romanian telecommunications company, a cable television network, internet service provider and telephone operator.

Founded in Cluj-Napoca in 1993, it is currently the owner of the second-largest cable network in Romania, behind Romanian Cable Systems and is also one of the most important Romanian ISPs, having about 900,000 customers (2005) and generating 25% of the web traffic in Romania.

Astral was rebranded in 2003 by Brandient, when it launched a new marketing image as well as the motto Creat să evoluze (Created to evolve in Romanian).

In 2005, Astral Telecom S.A. was bought for $420 million by UGC Europe.

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