--- title: Listing for Romanian fixed telecoms likely this autumn - Developing Telecoms description: Listing for Romanian fixed telecoms likely this autumn canonical_url: https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/447-listing-for-romanian-fixed-telecoms-likely-this-autumn.html language: en-GB date: 2015-01-06T15:49:19Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/447-listing-for-romanian-fixed-telecoms-likely-this-autumn.html. Schema.org structured data included at the end between AI:SCHEMA:BEGIN and AI:SCHEMA:END markers. markdown-tokens: 1299 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/447-listing-for-romanian-fixed-telecoms-likely-this-autumn.html. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Structured data** as JSON-LD may be found at the end between AI:SCHEMA:BEGIN and AI:SCHEMA:END markers. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. On May 3 this year the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCTI) signed a contract with Credit Suisse First Boston to provide consultancy for the listing of the Romanian State 's shares in fixed telephony operator RomTelecom... On May 3 this year the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCTI) signed a contract with Credit Suisse First Boston to provide consultancy for the listing of the Romanian State 's shares in fixed telephony operator RomTelecom. After the Finance and Justice Ministries' approval, the contract will be passed on to the government for endorsement. Romania controls 45.99% of RomTelecom via MCTI, while OTE of Greece controls the remaining stake, 54.01%. RomTelecom owns a 30% stake in mobile operator Cosmote Romania , the former CosmoRom re-launched in early December 2005. Last year was RomTelecom's best financial year: $927 million sales and $233.7 million net profit, a historical maximum, or a 25% profit margin. In the meantime 2005 was also the first year when the company subscribers base decreased (by 380,000 to 3.958 million) mainly due to a too-much-delayed tariffs rebalancing process, while the company had at the same time a long waiting list - 275,000. RomTelecom shares will be traded on Bucharest Stock Exchange, as well as on an international stock exchange this autumn. Market value could be between $2 billion and $2.5 billion, strongly influenced by the National Regulatory Authority for Communications (ANRC) decision to decrease interconnection tariffs prior to the company's listing, as well as by Cosmote Romania's performance. In late 2005 RomTelecom had sued ANRC for decreasing interconnection tariffs at an improper moment: network digitalisation was not finished, the company IPO was in progress etc. Consequently, RomTelecom announced that investment in the next generation network, about $500 million, would be postponed until "the investment climate in Romania is suitable for further investments", but more than $100 million would still be put into upgrading the access network this year. According to the 2005 Guide to Romanian Telecommunications the interconnection tariff reduction could cut 5%-10% off the company's market value or about $200 million, half of which would be lost by the state. Pieter Bakker, Chief Commercial Officer of RomTelecom, has stated that the company would be interested in acquiring a WiMax licence to be auctioned late in 2006, to help the operator compensate for decreasing voice revenues by providing content services. To compete with altnets, which are already taking 10% of fixed telephony local users, RomTelecom has no other choice but to invest heavily in network: next generation network, WiMAX etc. More info: - ```json { "@context": "http:\/\/schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Article", "author": { "@id": "https:\/\/www.essential-reading.com\/#alec_barton_1e24d4a2cb" }, "dateModified": "2015-01-06T15:49:19Z", "datePublished": "2006-06-04T00:00:00Z", "description": "Listing for Romanian fixed telecoms likely this autumn", "headline": "Listing for Romanian fixed telecoms likely this autumn", "image": { "@id": "https:\/\/www.essential-reading.com\/#defaultLogo" }, "inLanguage": "en-GB", "mainEntityOfPage": { "@type": "WebPage", "url": "https:\/\/www.essential-reading.com\/telecom-business\/telecom-trends-forecasts\/447-listing-for-romanian-fixed-telecoms-likely-this-autumn.html" }, "publisher": { "@id": "https:\/\/www.essential-reading.com\/#defaultPublisher" }, "url": "https:\/\/www.essential-reading.com\/telecom-business\/telecom-trends-forecasts\/447-listing-for-romanian-fixed-telecoms-likely-this-autumn.html" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alec Barton", "@id": "https:\/\/www.essential-reading.com\/#alec_barton_1e24d4a2cb" }, { "@id": "https:\/\/www.essential-reading.com\/#defaultLogo", "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https:\/\/developingtelecoms.com\/images\/stories\/highResLogos\/dt-site-logo-440.png", "width": "440", "height": "122" }, { "@id": "https:\/\/www.essential-reading.com\/#defaultPublisher", "@type": "Organization", "url": "https:\/\/www.essential-reading.com\/", "logo": { "@id": "https:\/\/www.essential-reading.com\/#defaultLogo" }, "name": "Developing Telecoms" } ] } ```