Orange: Unfair Process! Romtelecom: Unfair Competition!

Bucharest, September 11, 2008

Richard Moat - CEO Orange Romania, described the process of allowing Romtelecom to participate in the tender for the 6th mobile licence in Romania as unfair, since the existing mobile operators were not allowed to bid. Romtelecom holds 30% in Cosmote Romania and both are part of the OTE group (soon to be integrated into Deutsche Telekom group).

Yorgos Ioannidis - CEO Romtelecom, responded that it is unfair not to allow Romtelecom to compete in the mobile broadband market. Cosmote Romania does not have a 3G licence.

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[OrangeUnfairTactics]

Give me my money back

[SupervizareOrange]

If we talk about competition let`s go to the definition. Orange can eliminate in Romania any kind of competitor It`s still the largest company with over 11 milion customers, if they have a strong and agressive market project to reatract customers, especially the existing ones, Vodafone will be borke (now has huge loses and strike well sustained will kill it).

ROMTELECOM isn`t a targeted client for Orange, it`s to little for Orange (it has just 60% of the clients in 2003)

[Jordache22222]

That's funny - both parties mention the other's "unfair" play. They are both making big money with ROI higher than anywhere else in UE financing mistakes they made in other networks and they are still complaining of each other. The only unfair thing was the way how ALL the carriers got their licenses in Romania bribing and arranging the auctions hand in hand with the authorities.