The total revenues in the electronic communications sector in the first three months of this year rose by 7.5% compared with the corresponding period last year to over 1.6 billion lei, shows a report by the National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology, quoted by IPN.

According to the report, the rise is due to the higher sales on practically all the market segments, except for the audiovisual programs broadcasting and retransmission sector, where sales fell by 3.3% on the first quarter of 2014 to 80.7 million lei.

The highest rise in revenues, of over 14%, was recorded on the dedicated mobile broadband Internet access services market, where sales totaled over 82 million lei. The revenues on the fixed Internet access services market grew by 13.1% or over 29 million lei, to about 256 million lei.

The sales of mobile telephone services rose by 4.8% to about 834 million lei, of landline services – by 4.5% to 264 million lei, while the revenues from other activities performed on the electronic communications market increased by 23.6% to 155 million lei.

The most significant rises in the average monthly revenue per user were reported on the dedicated mobile Internet access services market and on the fixed Internet access services market.