The revenues from sales of electronic communications services in July – September 2016 decreased by 3.5% compared with the third quarter of 2015 to 1.7 billion lei, IPN reports, quoting the national ICT regulator ANRCETI.

The revenues on this market in nine months came to 5.4 billion lei. The decline witnessed in the period was due to the lower sales on three segments: landline telephony, broadcasting and retransmission of audiovisual programs, and other activities in the electronic communications sector.

In the third quarter, the sales of fixed-line telephone services fell by 20% to 205 million lei, of audiovisual program broadcasting and retransmission services by 18.5% to 68 million lei, while the revenues from other activities in the electronic communications sector declined by 31.3% to 89 million lei.

On the other three market segments – mobile telephone, mobile broadband Internet and fixed-line Internet – the sales increased. Thus, the sales of mobile broadband Internet services rose by 23.5% compared with the third quarter of 2015 to 189 million lei, of fixed-line Internet services by 7.7% to 282 million lei, while of mobile telephone services by 2.1% to 991 million lei.

The highest monthly average revenues per user were recorded on the fixed-line Internet services and mobile telephone services markets – 172.6 lei and 88.4 lei respectively.