Mobile Telephony Market of Moldova
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The Mobile Telephony Market of Moldova is divided between three GSM (Orange, Moldcell and Eventis) and two CDMA Unité and Interdnestrcom) mobile operators.
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[edit] Mobile Telephony Companies
Orange Moldova has launched its network in October 1998, Moldcell in April 2000, Moldtelecom (under the trademark Unité) in March 2007 and Eventis in December 2007.
[edit] Mobile Telephony Users
The number of mobile telephony users in Moldova increased by 47.3 % in the first quarter of 2008 against the last year and exceeded 2 mln 88.6 thousand[1].
At the beginning of this year, the number of mobile telephony users was of 1 mln 882.8 thousand. The penetration rate of such services per one hundred inhabitants increased by 19.7 percentage points and approached 61%.
The first million of mobile telephony users was registered in September 2005. A year and a half later the figure amounted to 1.5 mln users. During the first quarter of 2008, mobile telephony service suppliers connected to their network over 205.8 thousand new users, by more than thrice more against first quarter of 2007.
Moldcell connected the most users to its network 103.9 thousand. Overall, as of 1 April 2008, Moldcell had 660.1 thousand users, Orange Moldova had 1 mln 349.5 thousand users, Unite had 66.5 thousand users and Eventis had 12.5 thousand users.
[edit] Transnistrian operator
Interdnestrcom is the CDMA operator in Transnistrian region of Moldova.
[edit] References
- ^ (Romanian) R. Moldova are deja peste două milioane de utilizatori ai serviciilor de telefonie mobilă - Agenţia Naţionala pentru Reglementare în Comunicaţii Electronice şi Tehnologia Informaţiei (ANRCETI)
[edit] External links
- www.anrti.md - National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology (ANRCETI) official site
- Orange Moldova GSM operator
- Eventis GSM operator
- Moldcell GSM operator
- Unite CDMA operator
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