Telecom provider Vodafone expands 4G coverage in Romania to nine more cities

Telecom operator Vodafone has expanded its 4G coverage to nine other large cities in Romania, namely Baia Mare, Botosani, Buzau, Braila, Oradea, Pitesti, Ploiesti, Sibiu and Targu Mures. The company’s 4G service is now available in a total of 19 cities across the country, according to Vodafone. Vodafone’s 4G service is also available to clients in Arad, Bacau, Brasov, Cluj-Napoca, Constanta, Craiova, Iasi, Galati, Timisoara and Bucharest. Vodafone offers users 4G speeds of up to 150 Mbps. “We’ll continue to expand the 4G network gradually, so that, in the next two years, to cover the entire urban population of the country,” said Giovanni Chiarelli, CTO, Vodafone Romania. Vodafone Romania posted service revenues of EUR 703.7 million in the 2013-2014 fiscal year, slightly down compared to the same period the year before, on an organic basis, mainly due to lower mobile termination rates. Without the effect of the mobile termination rate cut, the company’s service revenues for 2013/2014 financial year went up 2 percent, also on an organic basis. In the quarter ended on March 31, 2014, service revenues were of EUR 173.6 million, up 3.8 percent year-on-year, on an organic basis. Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com