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Consumption Profiles of Romanian Telephony and Internet Users, Updated on Veritel.ro

17.02.2015

 

The Romanian Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) updated on Veritel.ro – the online application for comparing the telecom offers – the values configuring the profile of the occasional, average and intensive user of mobile telephony and mobile internet, based on the most recent statistical data processed by the Authority for the first half of 2014.

 
According to the ANCOM data, the average user of mobile telephony and mobile internet configured on Veritel.ro consumes 110MB internet traffic in a month, sends 71 national SMS-type messages (67 on-net and 4 off-net) and talks on average 208 minutes on-net (207 to mobile and 1 to fixed networks) and 37 minutes off-net (30 to mobile and 7 to fixed networks).
The occasional user of mobile telephony and mobile internet consumes 37MB internet traffic in a month, sends 23 national SMS-type messages (22 on-net and 1 off-net) and talks on average 69 minutes on-net (all to mobile networks) and 12 minutes off-net (10 to mobile and 2 to fixed networks).
The intensive user of mobile telephony and mobile internet consumes 330MB internet traffic in a month, sends 213 national SMS-type messages (201 on-net and 12 off-net) and talks on average 624 minutes on-net (621 to mobile and 3 to fixed networks) and 111 minutes off-net (90 to mobile and 21 to fixed networks).
The consumption values of the occasional, average and intensive fixed telephony user were also updated on www.veritel.ro. According to the statistical data aggregated by ANCOM, the average fixed telephony user talks 51 minutes on-net and 34 minutes off-net in a month.
These pre-set profiles, relying on the statistical data regarding the consumption of electronic communications services in Romania in the first semester of 2014, were introduced on Veritel.ro in order to ease up the configuration of the searched offer. The Veritel.ro users can however configure themselves the average monthly consumption and may choose whether to use these pre-defined profiles in order to precisely find out the most suitable telecom offer in line with their communication needs.
By using the Veritel.ro application, the users may find in three simple steps the most advantageous offers of fixed and mobile telephony and internet: they choose the category of services, insert their consumption estimates and are provided with a list of 25 tariff plans, ranked in order of cost. When the results are displayed, other relevant details are also published, such as the minimum contract duration, the termination penalties, or information on the available promotions.
Veritel.ro is an independent and non-commercial tool developed by the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications to the benefit of the telecom users from Romania. The access to this application is free of charge and is not constrained in any way, the users having instant access to all the public offers of all the communications operators from Romania.
Hereyou may access the Veritel.ro infographics concerning the consumption profiles of the telephony and internet users from Romania.