Growth was driven by higher mobile data usage and growth in client numbers, the company said in a statement Thursday.
End-September, Orange Romania provided mobile and landline telephony services to 10.3 million customers, 2.5% more than in the second quarter.
Mobile data traffic doubled in the third quarter compared with the same period last year, and 4G data traffic increased 3.5 times. End-September, 2.9 million Orange clients used 4G services, up by more than 50% compared with end-September 2016. the company’s 4G network covered 90.9% of Romania’s population at the end of September.
Smartphone sales grew 14% on the year in the third quarter, driving data traffic up.
Its Orange Home TV service had 369,000 clients end-September, up 17% on the year.
On a regional level, Orange revenues grew 6.9% in the third quarter, to EUR447 million, driven by 10.4% growth in Romania and 5% growth in Moldova. In Europe, Orange revenues grew 3.9% on the year in the third quarter, to EUR2.7 billion.