RCS&RDS expands 3G Internet services

RCS&RDS, one of the biggest domestic telecom operators, controlled by Zoltan Teszari, has expanded 3G Internet services to the entire coverage area of its own mobile telephony network and also raised the number of cities where it provides Internet services at speeds of 7.2 Mbps to 24, according to the data the company's representatives sent to ZF. "RCS&RDS expanded mobile Internet to the areas where it already provided mobile telephony. The coverage of Digi Net Mobil at speeds of 384 kbps is now that of Digi Mobil, the company's mobile telephony services," Cristina Nicoara, PR specialist with RCS&RDS, told ZF. Digi Mobil now covers the top 200 cities of the country, in the order of their size, and 4,000 km of national roads". RCS&RDS, Romania's largest Internet provider through fixed lines, with more than one million clients, in September 2009 launched mobile Internet services, a market where the biggest players are Orange, Vodafone and Zapp (acquired by Cosmote). The Internet services market was in 2009 the only one to further witness an increase in revenues and the number of customers.