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Encyclopedia > Connex GSM

Connex GSM is Romania's second-largest mobile phone network operator. It launched in April 1997 as the first GSM network in Romania (although not the first mobile phone network). It covers 95% of the Romanian population, with over 5 million subscribers and 48.41% market share. Connex provides roaming agreements with 238 international operators in 103 countries. A wide variety of systems of interconnected components are called networks. ... April is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four with the length of 30 days. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world. ... Roaming is a general term in wireless telecommunications that refers to the extending of connectivity service in a network that is different than the network with which a station is registered. ...


Connex is owned by MobiFon SA, which is in turn owned by Telesystems International Wireless (TIW) and Vodafone. On 15 March 2005 Vodafone reached a deal with TIW to purchase its 79% stake in Connex. Vodafones corporate logo is the outline of a SIM card Vodafone is a multinational mobile phone operator with headquarters in Newbury, Berkshire, United Kingdom and Düsseldorf, Germany. ... March 15 is the 74th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (75th in Leap years). ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...


As of March 2005, its shareholders are:

Connex GSM is in head-to-head competition with Orange for the 11.3 million mobile telephony users in Romania. Connex held the largest number of subscribers until September 2004, when Orange edged ahead. Vodafones corporate logo is the outline of a SIM card Vodafone is a multinational mobile phone operator with headquarters in Newbury, Berkshire, United Kingdom and Düsseldorf, Germany. ... George Copos (born 27 March 1953, Tăşnad, Satu Mare County) is a Romanian businessman and politician. ... Orange Romania is Romanias largest GSM network operator. ... September is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with the length of 30 days. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Other competitors are:

The motto of Connex is Tu faci viitorul (You create the future). A previous and better-known motto was Viitorul sună bine (The future sounds good). Cosmorom is a Romanian mobile phone operator owned by Romtelecom. ... Zapp Mobile is the only CDMA mobile phone operator in Romania, since the countrys market leaders use GSM. Overall, Zapp is the fourth largest network operator in the country and the 3rd mobile operator. ... General Information Generically (as a multiplexing scheme), code division multiple access (CDMA) is any use of any form of spread spectrum by multiple transmitters to send to the same receiver on the same frequency channel at the same time without harmful interference. ...

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Brands of Connex

Connex, or rather MobiFon SA, owns numerous brands. They include:

  • Xnet - one of the largest Romanian internet service providers
  • myX - Romania's first mobile portal
  • myBanking - mobile banking service
  • myDomain - domain name service

An Internet service provider (ISP) is a business or organization that offers users access to the Internet and related services. ...

History

  • 1998: SMS services introduced
  • 1999: Xnet Internet service introduced; High Speed Circuit Switched Data (HSCSD) technology introduced; mobile phones running on Connex donated to ambulance service of Oradea (first Romanian company to do so)
  • 2000: WAP mobile Internet services launched
  • 2001: myX, Romania's first mobile portal launched; SMS services such as dating, ringtones and logos are introduced; GPRS service launched
  • 2002: GPRS prepaid introduced; first company in Europe to introduce World Wide Number (WWN) facilities; mobile banking introduced in cooperation with Banca Comerciala Romana (BCR).
  • 2003: myBanking introduced - a service in collaboration with Raiffeisen Bank, for customers to pay Connex bills and do banking automatically
  • 2003: Connex Meeting Call introduced.
  • 2005: 3G services based on W-CDMA introduced, giving way to video telephony and broadband internet via mobile phone.
  • 2005: In partnership with RIM, Connex launches the first BlackBerry service in Romania.

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See also

// World These are the worlds largest mobile phone companies, by number of subscribers. ... Telephones - main lines in use: 4,300,000 (2003) Telephones - mobile cellular: 11,335,791 (2005), 3 GSM cellular networks covering more than 85% of the territory (about 98% of the population) as well as one CDMA network. ...

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Mobile phone networks by region (list)
Multiregional: 3 | Boost Mobile | movistar | Orange | T-Mobile | TIM | Virgin Mobile | Vodafone
Africa: MTN | V-Mobile | Vodacom
Asia Pacific: Airtel | BSNL | China Mobile | China Netcom | China Unicom | Globe Telecom | Hutchison Telecom | NTT DoCoMo | Optus | Orange Australia | Reliance Infocomm | Singtel | SmarTone | StarHub | Sun Cellular | Telecom New Zealand | Telstra
Caribbean: Digicel | TSTT
Europe: Amena | BeeLine | Connex Romania | E-Plus | KPN | Meteor | MTS | O2 | Pannon GSM | Telfort | TeliaSonera | Wind
North America: ALLTEL | Bell Mobility | Cingular Wireless | Dobson | MTS | Fido | Nextel | Rogers Wireless | Sasktel | Sprint | T-Mobile USA | Telus | Verizon Wireless | Western Wireless
South America: GT&T | Vivo
Satellite: Globalstar | Iridium
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