The national telecoms carrier Moldtelecom in the first nine months of 2012 saw significant rises in most of its activity indicators, including the number of subscribers, the market share and the turnover, the Internet access services, digital IPTV and mobile phone services, Info-Prim Neo reports, quoting a press release from the company. At the same time, Moldtelecom continued to be the largest player on the fixed-line telephone market, with a share of 97.36% by revenues and with the largest number of clients, of 1.123,8 million. After the launch of the optical FTTH network in May, Moldtelecom offered exceptional possibilities of using multiplay services such as broadband Internet, last-generation TV and new voice services. Owing to the implementation of this advanced technology, which enables the fastest optical access to the resources of the global network, Moldtelecom became a leader in the provision of broadband Internet access by the FTTx technology. It provided this service for 68,700 clients, according to the national ICT regulator. The carrier also remains an absolute leader by the provision of broadband Internet services based on the xDSL technology, serving now 205,300 subscribers of the 207,200 clients existing at national level. In the period, the national carrier obtained a record income from the sale of Internet access services, of 410.7 million lei, an increase of 21.6% compared with January-September 2011. Moldtelecom also headed the rankings of TV operators, reaching a market share of about 25% by revenues. Moldtelecom’s brand Unité witnessed the largest increase in the sale of mobile telephone services market, of 41%, compared with its main rivals. According to the company’s press service, the market share of Unité has grown constantly over the last two years by the number of users and this is a remarkable fact. In the third quarter of this year, this indicator rose to 7.3%, compared with the second quarter of this year. The company says the significant rise in the incomes of Unité is due to the essential increase in the ARPU (average monthly revenue per user), which has increased since the start of this year and was 60.3 lei in the third quarter.