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29.09.2009 15:59:40
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| UPC HD-LAUNCH / UPC to launch the HD TV cable distribution |
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Bucharest (MEDIA EXPRES) / Sep 29, 2009 / UPC România announced today the launch starting with Octomber 1 of the cable distribution in High Definition (HD) format, available trough its digital cable network, including for the beginning, five channels: PRO TV HD, TVR HD, Eurosport HD, History HD, and Fashion TV HD.
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01.07.2009 02:30:46
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| COSMOTE-ZAPP-TAKOVER / Cosmote signed the takover of Telemobil / ZAPP for Eur207 millions |
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Bucharest (MEDIA EXPRES) / July 1, 2009 / COSMOTE Group has announced it has signed at June 30, in Bucharest, the agreement to buy Telemobil S.A. (Zapp), for the total of Eur207 millions, according a Cosmote press release.
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26.06.2009 12:16:07
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| INTERNET-GROWTH / Internet subscriber continue growth in Romania |
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Bucharest (MEDIA EXPRES) / 26 June 2009 / Digital Cable Systems, controlled by AIG Capital Partners, reported since the beginning of this year some 10.000 new subs to its Internet service according top company management.
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01.06.2009 17:51:14
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| UPC-DIGITAL-CHANNELS / UPC Digital distributes four new TV stations and launches a new package in Hungarian |
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Bucharest (MEDIA EXPRES) / June 1, 2009 / UPC Romania launched, on June 1, 2009, four new TV stations on its digital platform, as well as an additional package which includes ten channels in Hungarian, according to a press release.
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18.05.2009 17:12:34
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| TURK TELEKOM-AQUISITIONS / Turk Telekom might aquire assets in Romania |
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Bucharest (MEDIA EXPRES) / May 18, 2009 / Fix telephony operator Turk Telekom plans to make aquisitions of up to one billion dollars in Eastern Europe, Romania included, said Hakan Kanafani, Development Manager at Oger Telecom, the main shareholder of the Turkish company.
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18.05.2009 17:12:28
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| RCS-ANTENA 1-FOOTBALL / RCS and Antena 1 keep the football games in the First League |
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Bucharest (MEDIA EXPRES) / May 18, 2009 / After a week when rumors on the market announced that Romanian generalist channel Antena 1 and cable operator RCS would not have the money to cover the second payment for the First League football games, the money - €27 million - was eventually paid last Friday to the Professional Football League (LPF).
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18.05.2009 17:09:11
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| TURK TELEKOM-AQUISITIONS / Turk Telekom might aquire assets in Romania |
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Bucharest (MEDIA EXPRES) / May 18, 2009 / Fix telephony operator Turk Telekom plans to make aquisitions of up to one billion dollars in Eastern Europe, Romania included, said Hakan Kanafani, Development Manager at Oger Telecom, the main shareholder of the Turkish company.
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04.05.2009 14:56:22
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| DCS-INTERNET-CABLE / Malacopol, DCS: Small and medium players are forced to sell |
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Bucharest (MEDIA EXPRES) / May 4, 2009 / The small and medium Internet and cable companies will be forced to sell shares of their companies, starting the second quarter of this year, in order to survive on the market, says Dinu Malacopol, General Manager of Digital Cable Systems (DCS), the third most important cable television provider on the Romanian market.
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31.03.2009 18:51:28
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| COPYRIGHT-CABLE-GROWTH / Copyright fee goes up to 6% |
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Bucharest (MEDIA EXPRES) / March 31, 2009 / The Broadband Cable Communications Association (ACC) announced its members that starting April 2009, the cable companies would pay 6% of their income for copyright. The payment is to be made towards a unique collector, which will be established by the Romanian Copyright Authority (ORDA).
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25.03.2009 01:34:22
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| NETCITY-COMPETITION / The NetCity project breaks the law, says Competition Council |
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Bucharest (MEDIA EXPRES) / March 24, 2009 / The Romanian Competition Council (CC) appreciates that the NetCity project, which was created with the specific goal of putting all communications cables in Bucharest underground, breaks the competition law and should be modified.
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24.03.2009 14:03:19
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| WIMAX-PRICE / Starting price of E1 million for Wimax |
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Bucharest (MEDIA EXPRES) / March 24, 2009 / ANC, the Romanian National Authority for Communications, suggested the Romanian Government a new procedure for sharing the Wimax licenses with the market. Thus, ANC suggested that the licenses should be given on the market for a starting price of E1 million.
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10.03.2009 11:44:54
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| EURONEWS-SARB-APOINTMENT / Lucian Sarb, Editorial Manager for Euronews |
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Bucharest (MEDIA EXPRES) / March 9, 2009 / Lucian Sarb, the Manager and Editorial Manager of business Romanian channel The Money Channel, will become, starting May 2009, the new Editorial Manager of European news channel Euronews.
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10.03.2009 11:42:18
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| DISCOVERY-CHANNEL-HD / Discovery launched Discovery HD in Romania |
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Bucharest (MEDIA EXPRES) / March 9, 2009 / The global media group Discovery Network launched a new TV channel in Romania, namely Discovery HD, according to a press release issued by the company.
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10.03.2009 11:28:22
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| CABLE-FEES / Romanian cable services might become 10% more expensive |
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Bucharest (MEDIA EXPRES) / March 9, 2009 / The subscription fees to cable services in Romania will increase by 10 percent, if the copyright fees are raised in the following period. The decision to raise copyright taxes from 2% to 12% will be discussed, the following week, by a Commission which could put it into practice in a month's time.
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02.03.2009 17:39:29
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| LIBERTY GLOBAL-REPORT / Liberty Global (UPC), worried about Romanian project NetCity |
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Bucharest (MEDIA EXPRES) / February 24, 2009 / UPC Romania reported a growth on the DTH segment in the last quarter of 2008, reaching 155,300 households with its Focus Sat service, but closed the year with under one million subscribers for the analogical cable service and 109,900 subscribers for the digital cable service. These results have been reported in the context of “serious concern regarding the NetCity project”, according to the annual report of the mother company, Liberty Global, Inc.
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06.02.2009 17:47:33
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| ANC-AUCTION-FAILURE / Operators boycott Romanian BWA licenses |
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Bucharest (MEDIA EXPRES) / February 6, 2009 / The auction for the €7 million broadband wireless access licenses (BWA), which was organized by the Romanian Communications Authority (ANC), was a failure: by the deadline which had been set on February 5, none of the six companies which had showed interest in the auction decided to make an offer.
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11.12.2008 11:15:14
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| MEDIA SAT-MESSENGER-LAUNCH / Media Sat launched the first Romanian messenger application |
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Bucharest (MEDIA EXPRES) / December 10, 2008 / The Romanian company Media Sat, which is a fix telephony, Internet and call-center provider, launched the first fully localized messenger application on December 1st. The application gathered 20,000 users in the first three days since its launch, although the estimated number of users for the whole year was 30,000.
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05.12.2008 11:54:10
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| INTERNET-STATISTICS / The Number of Internet connexions reached 2.29 million at the end of 2008 |
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Bucharest (MEDIA EXPRES) / December 3, 2008 / The statistics regarding the electronic communication market in Romania in the first half of the year, which have been reported by the providers to the National Communication Authority (ANC), indicate an annual growth rate in the number of Internet users.
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05.12.2008 11:53:07
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| TELEPHONY-STATISTICS / Romanians prefer subscriptions to pre-paid telephony cards |
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Bucharest (MEDIA EXPRES) / December 3, 2008 / The statistics regarding the electronic communication market in Romania in the first half of the year, which have been reported by the providers to the National Communication Authority (ANC), indicate an annual growth rate in the number of mobile telephony users.
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04.12.2008 10:17:48
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| CABLE-DTH-STATISTICS / The number of cable and DTH subscribers grew in the first half of 2008 |
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Bucharest (MEDIA EXPRES) / December 3, 2008 / Romania had 3.6 million cable subscribers at the end of the first half of 2008, and 1.98 million DTH subscribers, according to a report released by The National Communications Authority (ANC).
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