RCS & RDS opens Wi-Fi network for non-customers, covers all metro network

Romanian telecom company RCS&RDS has expanded its Wi-Fi network at a national level and allows all users to connect to its network for free one hour during the day. The network was previously accessible only to RCS & RDS's internet services customers. The network already has 600 hotspots, in 75 percent of the country's counties.

The company plans to have a complete coverage with Wi-Fi and 3G services in all Bucharest's underground until the end of November this year, it has announced. RCS & RDS has 9 million users of cable, internet, satellite TV, mobile and fixed telephony services. The company is controlled by Romanian businessman Zoltan Teszari. It was created 15 years ago and operates on the Romanian market, as well as in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia and Serbia. The company has included internet services as well as landline and mobile telephony to its offer recently, having also launched specialized TV channels: DIGI Film, DIGI Sport, Zece TV. editor@romania-insider.com