COSMOTE posts 30% growth in business segment in Q1 2010

Consistently expanding its business services portfolio, COSMOTE Romania posted a 30% increase in the number of corporate customers in Q1 2010, compared to same period last year.

"We are very pleased with the results registered in the business segment. They firmly confirm that customers appreciate our efforts to continuously enhance our network coverage and product portfolio. Expanding our business customer base, through tailor made solutions to best fit specific corporate needs, remains a top priority for COSMOTE Romania. Having recently expanded our product offering with 3G services and after reshaping the Convergent packages jointly with Romtelecom we are now able to cover those needs even better" said Nikos Choumis, COSMOTE Romania Sales & Customer Care Director.

COSMOTE Romania currently offers high quality services, to some of the most important companies in Romania such as Alpha Bank, Altex Romania, ANCOM, Banca Romaneasca, Civitas PSG, Marfin Bank, Marfin Leasing Romania, Raiffeisen Bank and ZTE, among others.

COSMOTE Romania provides the most effective solutions in the business sector with a portfolio that includes COSMOTE Business and COSMOTE Business Share plans for companies of all sizes, offering up to 5,000 national airtime minutes and unlimited communication in the share group, depending on the subscription plan. Recently the company expanded its portfolio with 3G programmes for business customers, the best proposition in the market for mobile Ιnternet and laptop connectivity, with speeds of up to 21.6 Mbps. COSMOTE Romania customers can also benefit from the company's BlackBerry solutions.

Moreover, COSMOTE and Romtelecom recently reshaped their integrated offer for companies -Convergent 1000 and Convergent Unlimited, the most flexible, competitive and cost-efficient telecom business solutions in the market, offering free air minutes or unlimited airtime for fixed, mobile and fixed-mobile communication.

COSMOTE had in Romania 7.2 million customers at March 31, 2010. Starting in 2005, COSMOTE Romania achieved the fastest network development in Europe, according to the Citigroup report in June 2007. In less than 5 years, COSMOTE Romania surpassed its competitors in terms of national network coverage. Today COSMOTE Romania offers seamless communication to more than 99% of the population and 90% of the territory. COSMOTE Romania is a subsidiary of COSMOTE Group, the operator with the strongest presence in SE Europe with 21.8 million customers in Greece, Albania, Bulgaria and Romania, addressing an extended market of 45 million people. For more information, visit www.cosmote.ro.