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Veritel.ro: Romanians consume 0.5GB mobile internet on average, every month

14.12.2016

The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications of Romania (ANCOM) updated on Veritel.ro – the online application for comparing telecom offers – the consumption values configuring the profile of an average mobile telephony and mobile internet user, based on the most recent statistical data processed by the Authority. “The figures indicate an increase by 50% of the Romania users’ mobile internet consumption in the first half of 2016, compared to the previous reporting semester, which shows a sustained upward trend in the demand for state-of-the-art mobile technologies enabling superior data transfer speeds”, declared Eduard Lovin, Regulation Executive Director of ANCOM. 
 
Profile of an average mobile services user
According to ANCOM’s data, an average user of mobile telephony and internet services configured on Veritel.ro consumes 499 MB mobile internet traffic a month (compared to 336 MB in the previous reporting period), sends 73 national SMS (of which, 59 on-net and 14 off-net) and calls – on average - 262 minutes from their own terminal both on-net (177 minutes), and off-net (85 minutes).
 
Profile of a fixed telephony user
According to www.veritel.ro, an average fixed telephony user calls 38 minutes on-net and 30 minutes off-net, the traffic remaining constant as to the previous reporting period (H II 2015).
These pre-set profiles, based on the statistical data regarding the consumption of electronic communications services in Romania in the first half of 2016, have been fed into Veritel.ro in order to facilitate offer configuration during the users’ search. For a more precise search of the telecom offer that best suits their communication needs, Veritel.ro users may configure their own average monthly consumption, the pre-set profiles being optional.
 
About Veritel.ro
By means of 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 special offers.
 
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 in Romania. 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 in Romania.

 

The project “Online application for comparing the communications offers intended for the end-users” was implemented by ANCOM within Operation 1 “Supporting the setting-up of e-government solutions”, Key Area of Intervention 2 “Developing and increasing the efficiency of electronic public services”, Priority Axis 3 “Information Technology and Communications for the private and public sectors”, under the Sectoral Operational Programme “Increase of Economic Competitiveness”, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund.