Vodafone Romania launches 4G commercial services

Telecom operator Vodafone Romania announced the launch of the first 4G services in Romania, at speeds of up to 75 Mbps, available with for new and existing Vodafone subscribers with the Internet Nelimitat Extra and Internet Nelimitat Profesional packages.

4G customers will receive a 4G Ready SIM. They can test the service and benefit from free unlimited traffic between November 20 and December 31, 2012 by activating the option Unlimited 4G traffic.

At the moment, Vodafone’s 4G network is operational in 10 cities: Arad, Bacau, Brasov, Bucuresti, Cluj, Constanta, Craiova, Iasi, Galati and Timisoara.

Outdoor coverage is over 90 percent in most of these cities, except Bucharest, due to the current spectrum usage limitations, according to the company.

Vodafone announced that next year it will be able to provide 4G commercial services, at speeds of up to 100 Mbps. The company’s 4G network runs in the 1800 MHz frequency bandwidth.

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Romania is among the first European markets where Vodafone rolled out 4G services, after Germany, Portugal and Italy.

Vodafone had 7,874,220 customers in Romania at the end of September 2012. The company posted revenues of EUR 387.6 million in the first half of the financial year, ended September 30, 2012.

 4G compatible devices in Vodafone’s portfolio: 

• USB Vodafone K5005 LTE modem, for PC/Laptop connectivity, available from EUR 0, with a two-year Internet Nelimitat Profesional subscription, for EUR 19/month;
• Vodafone Hotspot R210 LTE, which connects simultaneously up to five devices for EUR 89, along with the two-year Internet Nelimitat Profesional subscription;
• Asus Transformer Pad Infinity TF700 KL tablet on Android 4.0 OS, with prices starting EUR 419, with the two-year Internet Nelimitat Profesional subscription.

 Otilia Haraga