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Number of mobile phones slightly drops since last year

Number of mobile telephony users drops by 3.1 percent during June 2011 - June 2012 and reached a total of 22 of 22,7 milioane users. The voice traffic increased by 6,2% and reached 30,8 billion minutes, according to data provided by the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM)

'The data provided by Ancom took into account both subscriptions and SIM, the prepaid cards  in active portfolios of telecom companies as  Cosmote Romania, Orange Romania, RCS & RDS, Romtelecom, Telemobil and Vodafone Romania', said  Director of Regulation Department of ANCOM, Eduard Lovin present at a specialized event today.

According  to ANCOM, the number of prepaid cards decreased by 4.7% to 13.4 million, while subscriptions have seen a reduction of 1% to 6.36 million for individual customers segment, and 0.01%, to 2.94 million, for firms. Penetration of telephone services decreased by almost four percentage points from December 2011 to 119.2%.

The average duration of a mobile phone call was estimated at 2 minutes and 24 seconds, up to 7 seconds from the end of 2011, while average monthly traffic registered by an active user increased by 8.3% to 3 hours and 42 minutes.