Connex GSM Romania
Connex GSM is the largest
mobile phone network operator in
Romania. Connex provides
roaming agreements with 238 international operators in 103 countries. The operator is owned by MobiFon SA. Connex, launched in
1997 as the first
GSM network in Romania (although not the first mobile phone network), covers 95% of the Romanian population, with over 3,000,000 subscribers and 55.97% market share.
They compete with:
The new motto of Connex is
Tu faci viitorul (You create the future). The previous and more well-known motto was Connex
Viitorul sună bine (The future sounds good).
Brands of Connex
Connex, or rather MobiFon SA, owns numerous brands. They include:
- Xnet - one of the largest Romanian ISPs
- myX - Romania's first mobile portal
- myBanking - mobile banking service
- myDomain - domain name service
History
Connex GSM was an innovator in the Romanian market, and, after launching in 1997, debuted many new services.
- 1998: SMS services introduced
- 1999: Xnet Internet service introduced; High Speed Circuit Switched Data (HSCSD) technology introduced; mobile phones running on Connex donated to ambulance service of Oradea (first Romanian company to do so)
- 2000: WAP mobile Internet services launched
- 2001: myX, Romania's first web portal launched; SMS services such as dating, ringtones and logos are introduced; GPRS service launched
- 2002: GPRS prepaid introduced; first company in Europe to introduce World Wide Number (WWN) facilities; mobile banking introduced in cooperation with Banca Comerciala Romana (BCR).
- 2003: myBanking introduced - a service in collaboration with Raiffeisen Bank, for customers to pay Connex bills and do banking automatically
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