Sales on the fixed-line phone services market in 2013 declined the fifth consecutive year despite the slight rise in the number of subscribers. According to the statistics of the national ICT regulator ANRCETI, the sales fell by over 45 million lei (3.9%) on 2012, even if the customer base grew by over 15,000 (+1.3%) to 1.2 million, IPN reports.
The rise in the number of subscribers was due exclusively to the 24 alternative providers that connected over 23,000 new customers to their networks. The customer base of SA “Moldtelecom” rose by over 8,000. At the end of 2013, SA “Moldtelecom” had over 1 million subscribers (91.3% of the total number).
Last year, a fixed-line phone user spoke over the phone 301 minutes or more than five hours on average a month, down 49 minutes (14%) on 2012.
The decrease in revenues from the sale of fixed-line telephone services led to an unessential modification of the market share of the largest provider. During a year, the share of SA “Moldtelecom” by turnover fell by 1.2 percentage points to 95.2%.
