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High Speed Mobile Internet Penetration Rate Reached 41%

10.12.2013
 
“The Romanian mobile telephony and internet market kept registering growths as of mid-2013, which is a proof of the Romanian users’ steady interest for mobility. A mobile internet user spends on average 260 MB per month in Romania, this indicator registering growth rates in the past years. At the same time, it is worth noting that almost 70% of the high speed mobile internet access connections are provided against a monthly payment - subscriptions or extra-options for internet access”,the president of ANCOM, Mr Catalin Marinescu, said at the Mobile Communic@tions Gala, where ANCOM presented data on the mobile telephony and internet market in the first half of 2013.
As of 30 June 2013, there were 8.2 million active broadband mobile internet access connections in Romania, up by 11% as compared to end-2012. Within the total connections, 53% were achieved on the mobile phone against the payment of a subscription or an extra-option for internet access, 31% were mobile phone connections against the payment per “consumption unit”, and 16% were connections achieved over modems/cards/dongles. The total number of terminals/SIM cards allowing the mobile internet access over EV-DO, 3G/3G+, 4G technologies reached 9.9 million, by 14.3% more as compared to end-2012. 
Hence, the mobile internet penetration rate (the total connections per 100 inhabitants) grew by more than 5 percentage points, covering 56% of the population as of 30 June 2013. As well, the penetration rate of broadband mobile connections reached 41%.
In the mobile telephony segment, the first half of the year registered an insignificant decrease of the number of active users, to 22.6 million, as compared to 2012 (22.7 million as of 30.06.2012, respectively 22.8 million as of 31.12.2012). Out of these, 6.3 million were residential postpaid users, 3 million were business postpaid users, and 13.3 million were users of active prepaid cards. As of 30 June 2013, the mobile telephony penetration rate was 112.3% per 100 inhabitants.
As well, the voice traffic on the mobile networks rose by 2.5% as compared to the first semester of 2012, exceeding 31 billion minutes. Approximately 27 billion of these were on-net minutes, more than 3 billion were minutes to other terrestrial mobile public networks, 1 billion were minutes to fixed public networks and 560 million were minutes to international destinations. 
As for the SMS traffic, approximately 8.1 billion SMS messages were sent by the middle of 2013, by 22% more than in the first half of 2012. Of these, 94.5% were on-net messages. Furthermore, 7.4 million MMS messages were sent in this period, by 4.2% more than in the first semester of 2012, whereas the traffic of 3G video calls fell by 40% as compared to the same period of 2012, to 0.6 million. The average call length was 2 minutes and 26 seconds, and a user talked on average 3 hours and 52 minutes a month, by 4% more than in the first semester of 2012.
Concerning the outbound international roaming services, the voice traffic registered an annual growth of 16.7%, to 183 million minutes (45 million outgoing calls and 138 million incoming calls), whereas the roaming SMS traffic increased by 6.3% as compared to the first semester of 2012, amounting to 51 million. The average length of a roaming call was 1 minute and 54 seconds, while the average length of an incoming roaming call was 2 minutes and 51 seconds.

The statistical data report on the mobile telephone and internet access services was elaborated based on the data reported by the providers of such services and will soon be published on the Authority’s website.

High Speed Mobile Internet Penetration Rate Reached 41%

10.12.2013
 
“The Romanian mobile telephony and internet market kept registering growths as of mid-2013, which is a proof of the Romanian users’ steady interest for mobility. A mobile internet user spends on average 260 MB per month in Romania, this indicator registering growth rates in the past years. At the same time, it is worth noting that almost 70% of the high speed mobile internet access connections are provided against a monthly payment - subscriptions or extra-options for internet access”,the president of ANCOM, Mr Catalin Marinescu, said at the Mobile Communic@tions Gala, where ANCOM presented data on the mobile telephony and internet market in the first half of 2013.
As of 30 June 2013, there were 8.2 million active broadband mobile internet access connections in Romania, up by 11% as compared to end-2012. Within the total connections, 53% were achieved on the mobile phone against the payment of a subscription or an extra-option for internet access, 31% were mobile phone connections against the payment per “consumption unit”, and 16% were connections achieved over modems/cards/dongles. The total number of terminals/SIM cards allowing the mobile internet access over EV-DO, 3G/3G+, 4G technologies reached 9.9 million, by 14.3% more as compared to end-2012. 
Hence, the mobile internet penetration rate (the total connections per 100 inhabitants) grew by more than 5 percentage points, covering 56% of the population as of 30 June 2013. As well, the penetration rate of broadband mobile connections reached 41%.
In the mobile telephony segment, the first half of the year registered an insignificant decrease of the number of active users, to 22.6 million, as compared to 2012 (22.7 million as of 30.06.2012, respectively 22.8 million as of 31.12.2012). Out of these, 6.3 million were residential postpaid users, 3 million were business postpaid users, and 13.3 million were users of active prepaid cards. As of 30 June 2013, the mobile telephony penetration rate was 112.3% per 100 inhabitants.
As well, the voice traffic on the mobile networks rose by 2.5% as compared to the first semester of 2012, exceeding 31 billion minutes. Approximately 27 billion of these were on-net minutes, more than 3 billion were minutes to other terrestrial mobile public networks, 1 billion were minutes to fixed public networks and 560 million were minutes to international destinations. 
As for the SMS traffic, approximately 8.1 billion SMS messages were sent by the middle of 2013, by 22% more than in the first half of 2012. Of these, 94.5% were on-net messages. Furthermore, 7.4 million MMS messages were sent in this period, by 4.2% more than in the first semester of 2012, whereas the traffic of 3G video calls fell by 40% as compared to the same period of 2012, to 0.6 million. The average call length was 2 minutes and 26 seconds, and a user talked on average 3 hours and 52 minutes a month, by 4% more than in the first semester of 2012.
Concerning the outbound international roaming services, the voice traffic registered an annual growth of 16.7%, to 183 million minutes (45 million outgoing calls and 138 million incoming calls), whereas the roaming SMS traffic increased by 6.3% as compared to the first semester of 2012, amounting to 51 million. The average length of a roaming call was 1 minute and 54 seconds, while the average length of an incoming roaming call was 2 minutes and 51 seconds.

The statistical data report on the mobile telephone and internet access services was elaborated based on the data reported by the providers of such services and will soon be published on the Authority’s website.

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