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Electronic Communications Market Revenues Grew Slightly in First Half of the Year as Compared to Mid-2011

18.12.2012

 

Today, the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) has published the Integrated statistical data report on the Romanian electronic communications market in the first half of 2012 showing the evolution of the fixed telephony, mobile telephony, Internet access and data transmission, leased line and audiovisual programme retransmission markets as well as the evolution of the revenues obtained from the provision of these services in this year’s first semester. The report also embeds statistical data on service bundles and value added services.
According to the aforementioned report, the revenues obtained from the provision of electronic communications networks and services in this year’s first half totalised RON 7.48 billion, increasing by 3.5% as compared to last year’s same period. With the exception of the fixed telephone and leased line services, which registered revenue decreases of approx. 11% compared to the first semester of 2011, down to RON 745 million and, respectively, RON 133 million, the other revenues achieved from electronic communications services - Internet access (+16.2% to RON 1.1 billion), mobile telephony (+0.1% to RON 2.7 billion), linear audiovisual media programme retransmission to end-users (+2.6% to RON 796 million) - registered increases. The revenues from interconnection at mobile locations and, respectively, at fixed locations registered annual growth rates of 1.4%, amounting to RON 999 million, respectively of 14.6%, to RON 341 million.
According to the data reported by the fixed telephony providers, in the first six months of 2012, the number of access lines enjoyed a relatively constant evolution as compared to end-2011 and increased slightly as compared to 30 June 2011 – 0.3%, amounting to 4.68 million, whereas the number of subscribers rose by 0.3% to 4.05 million. An access line is the so-called “telephone post”, while a subscriber is the natural or legal person who concluded a contract with the service provider. One subscriber may have installed several access lines, each line having assigned its own telephone number. Out of the 4.68 million fixed telephony access lines, 3.84 million were installed to residential subscribers, accounting for 82% of the total, whereas 0.84 million access lines were installed to business subscribers.
The fixed telephony penetration rate per 100 inhabitants (computed as the ratio between the total amount of access lines and the number of inhabitants in Romania) was 24.6%, whereas the fixed telephony penetration rate per 100 households (computed as the ratio between the amount of access lines provided to residential subscribers and the number of households in Romania) was 54.2%.  
The end-users’ traffic on the fixed public telephone networks kept decreasing in the first half of the year by 0.7% as compared to end-2011 and, respectively, by 8.7% annually, reaching 2.8 billion minutes. In terms of structure of the traffic, the voice traffic on the providers’ own fixed networks registered an annual drop of 17% (to 1.57 billion minutes), whereas the traffic to other fixed networks and to mobile networks grew by 4% (to 527 million minutes), respectively by 7% (to 600 million minutes). Furthermore, the voice traffic to international networks fell annually by 0.7% (to 138 million minutes).
In this year’s first six months, at the level of a fixed telephony line, an average of 1 hour and 41 minutes was registered for the landline phone, by 10 minutes less than in the same period of 2011, in the context in which a call lasted on average 3 minutes and 16 seconds, down, as well, by 2 seconds.
With regard to the value added services, one may notice a 25.4% growth (to 19.3 million minutes) of the traffic achieved from the fixed telephone networks to national non-geographic numbers in 0Z = 08 domain, 17 million minutes of which were made to 0800-type freephone numbers. The traffic to numbers in 0Z = 08 domain achieved from mobile telephone networks grew by almost 41% annually, amounting to 15.5 million minutes, and calls were made in particular to freephone numbers.
The traffic to the single emergency call number 112 achieved from fixed telephone networks augmented annually by 17.3%, to 1.1 million minutes, whereas the traffic originated on mobile telephone networks to this number amounted to 6.2 million minutes, up by 12.8%.
According to the statistical data report, at midyear there were 5.5 million users of electronic communications service bundles (integrated services and tied services) in Romania, up by 68.8% as compared to the same period of the previous year, while the penetration rate per 100 households of these services reached 77.6%. Out of the total number of bundle users, 3.77 million used bundles made of two electronic communications services (2-play), up by 105.5% as compared to the same period of 2011, whereas the number of users of bundles comprising at least three electronic communications services grew by 21.5%, registering 1.73 million users.

The statistical data report was elaborated based on the data reported by the active providers of electronic communications services, which carried out commercial activities between 1 January and 30 June 2012, and is available for consultation here.

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