The customer base of the mobile telephone operator Orange Romania rose by 16.4 per cent in the first quarter, to 8.26 million from 7 million customers in the year-earlier period, the company’s owner, France Telecom, announced Thursday.
On December 31, 2006, Orange Romania had over 8.04 million customers.
During Q1 of this year, the telephone operator posted a fast pace of growth in the number of its customers in Senegal – 97.4 per cent; Jordan – 79.6 per cent and Egypt – 53.2 per cent, according to France Telecom.
The French company regards Romania as a market with an important development potential of wireless operations, along with Poland, Botswana, Cameroon, The Ivory Coast, the Dominican republic, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Jordan, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Senegal, Slovakia and Vietnam.
In this year’s Q1, revenues of Orange Romania’s went up 29.1 per cent to EUR 283.3 M.
“We are very satisfied with the picking up of the growth pace in subscriber numbers and with the significant increase in network traffic against previous quarters,” declared Richard Moat, CEO Orange Romania.
The company has set as this year’s goals to carry on with the expansion of the broadband network, embracing EDGE and 3G technologies, and will soon introduce HDSPA-based technologies, also known as 3.5 G, Moat pointed out.
The Orange brand had 106 million customers at the end of this quarter, 63 per cent above the level recorded at the end of March 2006.
France Telecom announced in a press release on Wednesday that Sanjiv Ahuja, current Executive Vice-President, would relinquish his position, and is to be replaced by Olaf Swantee.
The position of executive vice-president in charge of Personal Communication Services oversees, among others, the operations of France Telecom (Orange’s majority shareholder) in Romania.
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