The operator controlled by Zoltan Teszari and Romtelecom continue the battle over the acquisition of the several hundred small cable operators with merely thousands of clients.
RCS&RDS Group and Romtelecom, through its own cable operator NextGen, which are involved in a fierce fight over market share, continue to be the most active operators in terms of acquisitions of small cable TV and Internet providers. There were more than 500 providers of cable TV services in mid last year, even though RCS&RDS and UPC alone accounted for 2.7 millions of the 3.4 million cable TV clients.
The takeover of the client base in Sighişoara of the Teleson operator was, market sources say, the latest confrontation of the two companies. Romtelecom is said to have initially discussed with Teleson last year, but then RCS&RDS came with an aggressive offer and managed to sign an agreement with the company held by PD-L (Democratic-Liberal Party) Senator Petru Başa. Several sources on the market say that RCS&RDS comes up with counteroffers almost every time Romtelecom starts talks with smaller cable operators. Romtelecom's acquisitions are supervised by Ovidiu Ghiman, who was RCS&RDS' commercial manager until 2009.
Romtelecom is number three on the TV market with one million clients and is trying to catch up with leader RCS&RDS and leaving number two, UPC, behind.
The operator controlled by Zoltan Teszari and Romtelecom continue the battle over the acquisition of the several hundred small cable operators with merely thousands of clients.
RCS&RDS Group and Romtelecom, through its own cable operator NextGen, which are involved in a fierce fight over market share, continue to be the most active operators in terms of acquisitions of small cable TV and Internet providers. There were more than 500 providers of cable TV services in mid last year, even though RCS&RDS a
