Vodafone Romania

Vodafone Romania
subsidiary of Vodafone
Industry Mobile telecommunications
Founded 1997 as Connex GSM
Headquarters Bucharest, Romania
Key people
 Ravinder Takkar, CEO
Website www.vodafone.ro

Vodafone is a Romanian mobile phone network operator. It launched in April 1997 as the first GSM network in Romania (although not the first mobile phone network). Until October 2005 (shortly after acquisition by Vodafone), it was known as Connex, after which it was rebranded Connex-Vodafone and in April 2006, the Connex name was dropped, the operator being simply known as Vodafone Romania, aligning itself with the global Vodafone brand.

Vodafone Romania is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vodafone Group plc, and is the seventh-largest Vodafone subsidiary in the world by number of subscribers. Vodafone became the majority stakeholder after it brought 79% of Mobifon's shares from Canadian company Telesystems International Wireless, which had been the previous majority shareholder. Furthermore, it recently acquired 5% of Mobifon's shares from Canadian Entrepreneur Elani Grobler.

The operator is the main competitor of Orange for the 22.8 million active mobile telephony users in Romania.[1] Connex, the ancestor of Vodafone Romania, held the largest number of subscribers, except the year 2000, until September 2004, when Orange edged ahead.

The motto of Vodafone is Trăiește fiecare clipă (rendered in English by the company as Make the most of now, a more accurate translation would be "Live every moment"). Previous mottos were: Tu faci viitorul (You create the future) and Viitorul sună bine (The future sounds good).

Brands of Vodafone

Vodafone headquarters in Bucharest, Romania

Vodafone Romania (and Connex before it) used numerous others brands. They include:

History

A former "Connex Center" rebranded as Vodafone in Iaşi, Romania.

Radio frequency summary

The following is a list of known frequencies which Vodafone employs in Romania:

Frequencies used on the Vodafone Romania Network
MCC MNC Frequency Band number Protocol (Downlink/Uplink speed) Class Notes
226 01 900 MHz 8 GSM/GPRS 2G
226 01 1800 MHz 3 GSM/GPRS 2G
226 01 900 MHz 8 UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+ (21.6 Mbit/s/5.76 Mbit/s) 3G
226 01 2100 MHz 1 UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA (43.2 Mbit/s/5.76 Mbit/s) 3G
226 01 800 MHz 20 LTE (75 Mbit/s/37.5 Mbit/s) 4G Downlink speeds can be up to 225Mbit/s through CA_3A_20A
226 01 1800 MHz 3 LTE (150 Mbit/s/50 Mbit/s) 4G Downlink speeds can be up to 225Mbit/s through CA_3A_20A

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.ancom.org.ro/uploads/links_files/Raport_integrat_DS_-_sem_II_2012.pdf
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