Vodafone Romania S.A. is a

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n mobile phone

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operator. It launched in April 1997 as the first

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network in Romania. Before acquisition by

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, 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

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

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, 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

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for the 22.8 million active mobile telephony users in Romania.http://www.ancom.org.ro/uploads/links_files/Raport_integrat_DS_-_sem_II_2012.pdf 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 Romania (and Connex before it) used numerous others brands. They include: *Xnet – an

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, offering free unlimited dial-up for Connex mobile phone subscribers between 2000 and 2003. The brand is no longer used. *

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– Romania's first mobile portal. Also used by the company for a short-lived venture in the fashion industry. The portal has been relabeled as Vodafone Live. * myBanking –

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service * myDomain –

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service * homemade.ro –

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website

History

* 1998:

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services introduced * 1999:

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Internet service introduced; High Speed Circuit Switched Data (HSCSD) technology introduced; mobile phones running on Connex donated to ambulance service of

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(first Romanian company to do so) * 2000:

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mobile Internet services launched * 2001:

, Romania's first mobile portal launched; SMS services such as dating, ringtones and logos are introduced;

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service launched * 2002:

prepaid introduced; first company in Europe to introduce

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(WWN) facilities; mobile banking introduced in cooperation with

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(BCR). * 2003: myBanking introduced – a service in collaboration with Raiffeisen Bank, for customers to pay Connex bills and do banking automatically * 2003: Connex Meeting Call introduced. * 2005: 3G services based on W-CDMA introduced, giving way to video telephony and broadband internet via mobile phone. * 2005: In partnership with RIM, Connex launches the second

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service in Romania. * 2005:

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is named CEO of Connex. * 1 November 2005: The name of the operator is changed to Connex-Vodafone. * 27 April 2006: The name of the operator is changed to Vodafone Romania. * 2018: Vodafone acquires

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's Romanian operations,

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Radio frequency summary

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

References

External links

Vodafone official site
{{Romania mobile phone companies Vodafone Companies based in Bucharest Mobile phone companies of Romania

Brands of Vodafone

History

Radio frequency summary

See also

References

External links