Moldovan fixed telephony operators report decreasing turnover
After having stagnated in 2010, the fixed telephony market saw a 13.5-per-cent decrease in the first quarter of 2011 against the same period of the year before, according to data by the National Agency for Regulation of e-Communications and Information Technologies (ANRCETI).
The fixed telephony operators' turnover decreased by over 60 million lei, standing at 403.5 million lei (about 24 million euros) in the first three months of 2011 against 466.1 million lei in the first quarter of 2010.
ANRCETI experts said that the fixed telephony market has been in crisis for four years already. Thus, the sales on the fixed telephony market went down by 5.8 per cent in 2008 against 2007, and by 12.7 per cent in 2009 against the year before.
"The sales in 2010 were kept at the 2009 level due to a rise of about 11 per cent in the rates for international traffic," ANRCETI said. The agency explained the market's recession by the fact that the fixed telephony is increasingly replaced by mobile telephony services and online communication services.
The turnover of the main fixed telephony operator Moldtelecom dropped by 13.9 per cent in the first quarter of 2011, while the alternative operators' sales hiked by 36.8 per cent.
Although the sales on the fixed telephony market decreased, the number of subscribers to these services slightly increased by 1.7 per cent, exceeding 1.164 million lei.
In the first quarter, 22 providers worked on the fixed telephony market. The leading market player - Moldtelecom - had a 98.52-per-cent quota of the turnover. The other 21 alternative providers cover together 1.48 per cent of the market.
Moldpres
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