In the first nine months of this year, the market for mobile services was marked by a slight increase in voice traffic on mobile networks. Voice traffic reached 4.6 billion minutes, IPN quoted a National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology (ANRCETI) press release.
According to the press release, the volume of sales made by suppliers decreased by 2.3% and totaled 2.3 billion lei, while the total number of subscribers decreased, compared to the end of 2018, by 1.7% and made up 4.3 million.
ANRCETI said that out of the total number of subscribers, about 3.6 million are active users of mobile telephony, constituting a share of 83.3%. Thus, the penetration rate of the respective services relative to 100 inhabitants is 135.7%. During the reference period, the average monthly income per active mobile user increased, compared to the the same period of reference of 2018, by 1.4% and constituted 73.6 lei.
According to ANRCETI, the market shares of the three mobile providers, according to revenues, are as follows: Orange Moldova - 63.9%, Moldcell - 30.3% and Unite - 5.8%.
