Compared with the second quarter, Orange Romania’s turnover grew 4%.
“After a dynamic start to the year in terms of taxation and telecom market regulations, the local market seems to settle at the end of the third quarter. There are to obvious trends: demand for equipment is moderate , while appetite for digital services is higher. As pillars of sustainable development, network quality and client experience remain the main factors that make a difference and require investments and constant adaptability to market context,” said Liudmila Climoc, general manager of Orange Romania.
At the end of September 2019, Orange Romania had 10.928 million customers on the mobile, fixed and TV services, up 0.3% on the year.
Its cable and satellite television service, Orange Home TV, had 532,700 customers end-September, 12% compared with end-September 2018. Fixed broadband services had 332,900 customers, up 28% on the year.
At the end of September, 97.43% of Romania’s general population and 100% of the urban population had access to 4G services. 4G+ coverage exceeded 52% of the general population.
Customers’ appetite for mobile data generated an increase of approximately 34% in consumption in the third quarter of 2019 and 4G traffic accounted for around 84% of total generated traffic.
In 2018, Orange Romania’s net profit dropped 39.8%, to RON192.2 million, while its turnover grew 7.1%, to RON5.75 billion.