Demand for Internet services via fixed lines went down in thelast quarter of last year compared with the previous years butmaintained high, reveals a ZF analysis of the figures calculated byRomtelecom and UPC, two of the biggest players on thismarket.
The two operators added almost 70,000 new clients for their fixedInternet services in the fourth quarter of 2009, with Romtelecomgetting most of them (57,362). The number of clients fell slightlycompared with the same time of 2008, but quite a lot compared withthe last three months of 2007, when consumer spending was risingfast, fuelled by economic growth and lending.
As for mobile Internet services, Romtelecom gained 27,000 clients,while Orange, the number one on the local telecom market, saw over470,000 more people starting to use its mobile data services.Vodafone did not reveal any client numbers, saying only that it didgo up in 2009. Zapp, a company acquired by Cosmote last year, hadaccording to Deutsche Telecom, 380,000 voice and data serviceclients at the end of 2009 compared with June, when it had374,000.
The number one on the fixed Internet services market, RCS&RDSis not listed on the stock market and does not publish data on thenumber of clients at regular intervals.
On the TV service market, the data provided by Romtelecom and UPCreveal that the number of new clients continued to go up in thefourth quarter or 2009 at a pace close the growth pace of theprevious years.
UPC & Romtelecom are number two and three on the local TVservice market, dominated by RCS&RDS, with over 2.5 millionclients.
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