10.21.2014

Demand from business clients is weaker than demand coming from retail users as companies are still concerned with slashing costs, states Jean Francois Fallacher, chief executive officer of Orange more

10.17.2014

UK's Vodafone group, one of the largest communications service providers in the world, has expanded in full gear from mobile telephony to fixed and cable/TV services in the last few years and plans to more

10.15.2014

Clients of La Mama restaurants and Cafepedia coffee shops will be able to pay the check via mobile phone, through a dedicated SEQR application, by scanning a QR code on their bill and confirming more

09.30.2014

The RCS&RDS group, founded by Romanian entrepreneur Zoltan Teszari, will become the fourth mobile telephony provider in Hungary after winning a 20-year license at government-held auction and is now more

07.16.2014

Romania’s mobile telephony market is in a much better condition than 3-4 years ago, as retail clients consumed more and the economy’s revival can be felt in the industry, Jean Francois Fallacher, more

06.24.2014

The mobile Internet market in Romania has a "phenomenal" potential for development and could see the number of users double in just two years, says Indian executive Ravinder Takkar, the new chief more

06.02.2014

UK’s PayPoint, which operates a network of more than 8,000 terminals enabling users to pay various bills across Romania, plans to expand with new online and mobile payment processing services after more

04.09.2014

Users in Romania are willing to pay for music but most of the money on the local market comes from games, said Sergiu Biris, founder of Trilulilu and CEO of Zonga. more

04.09.2014

Romanian prepaid mobile phone card users will have to register their ID with their mobile operator or their service would be suspended and people buying prepaid SIM cards will have to present ID upon more

04.09.2014

The mobile application market is on the rise following the introduction of technologies allowing quick access to mobile internet, such as 4G and 4G+, said Vasile Voicu, product manager for Romtelecom more

04.09.2014

The number of active users of mobile telephony increased 0.3% in 2013, to 22.9 million, and voice traffic increased 3.3%, to 63.6 billion minutes, Romanian telecom regulator ANCOM said Wednesday. more

12.12.2013

Mobile banking is the future and retailers will be more and more willing to accept mobile payments, according to Titus Grecescu, general manager of online payment processor Pay&Co. more

12.12.2013

The Romanian mobile payment market is estimated at about EUR10 million a year and at least one third of Romanians use mobile payment services, according to marketing company Breeze Mobile. more

08.13.2013

Mobile operators Cosmote, Orange, RCS&RDS and Vodafone Romania want to bring to similar levels charges for calls made in different networks and for same-network calls. more

07.17.2013

Over 80% of Romanians who own a mobile phone (normal phone or smartphone) said they bought it as new, and their choice was largely supported both by advantageous offers made by telecom operators and more

04.16.2013

A higher smartphone penetration rate would trigger an increase in purchases via mobile devices, Ian Carrington, director mobile solutions at Google UK, said Tuesday at the conference ZF Mobilio. more

04.16.2013

Things were pretty clear ten years ago: the mobile phone was generally used to make and receive calls and send text messages, and we would watch movies on TV either from a cable service or from a DVD, more

04.15.2013

Mobile applications developers are rejoicing telecom operators' strategy to sell as many smartphones as possible, Metromind representative Mihai Dragan said Monday at the conference ZF Mobilio. more

04.08.2013

In a few years’ time services widely used at present, such as ordering a taxi by phone from a human operator could disappear from the offer of certain companies amid the smartphone and tablet sales more

03.27.2013

MasterCard cardholders will be able to make mobile payments via smartphones based on a free application allowing the payment of bills, as well as of products and services bought from merchants. more

02.13.2013

The reduction of mobile termination rates in 2012 by almost 40% against the preceding year weighed heavily on the financial results of telecom operators, Vodafone Romania chief executive told ZF in an more

02.04.2013

Romanian Cluj-Napoca- based Mobile Distribution, a leading distributor of prepaid products, reported a 1.9% increase in 2012 turnover, to some EUR50 million, after expanding its portfolio to over more

01.23.2013

Several major banks are preparing to introduce “contactless” mobile phone payments to merchants in their standard offer this year after having already conducted pilot projects on using this more

11.08.2012

Orange, Vodafone and Cosmote, the largest cell phone operators in Romania, are asking the government to preserve unjustified revenue when asking for as slow a reduction of interconnection charges as more

11.01.2012

Mobile internet services through 3G and LTE (4G) technologies will over the next few years be the growth drivers for the Romanian telecom market, as they are currently used by only 15 out of 100 more