Comments on: Intermission: Brought to you by Romtelecom

By: Bryce

Bryce — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 12:23:59 +0000

I recently waited only 2 weeks to receive my internet service in Poiana Brasov, & was Romtelecom’s first client for the entire building.. In Ro, as in many other countries, it’s WHO you know..

By: strudel

strudel — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:38:30 +0000

Telecoms in Italy are not so bad after all. But the biggest one company has a funny call service. Low paid youngsters on a temporary contract may give the poor customer a reply chosen at random. The unlucky customer may go to sleep reassured that -The problem will be solved within tomorrow- (in case he picked customer-carer Mary)- , or commit suicide being asked hi wife’s zip code (in case he picked Juliet). -

strudel

By: Romerican

Romerican — Tue, 09 May 2006 05:11:00 +0000

Shadow – I am definitely the haole in this situation. Trying to ‘talk story’ has gotten no where.

Kyah – I believe I’ve just cheated my way to victory!

By: Kyahgirl

Kyahgirl — Tue, 09 May 2006 02:15:00 +0000

the race is on…good luck :-)

By: shadowchase

shadowchase — Tue, 09 May 2006 00:18:00 +0000

sounds very similar to the issues we had getting “specialized” (out of the loop of the mentality) services when we were dealing with “da kine”….technology is not a priority, you know? best wishes….

By: Romerican

Romerican — Sun, 07 May 2006 22:44:00 +0000

Cherolex – So, give me the number to your guy in Montreal and maybe he can fix my connection in 30 minutes and… Oh. Oh, yeah. =P

Bogdan – Interesting facts! I’m never quite sure why, but I do like learning about these telecom structures. Interestingly, after six months of friends’ constant suggestion that I get a mobile (although I’ve had literally no need for one and even those friends wouldn’t spend the few cents to call me, if I did), the time finally came to sign up for cellular service. And whom did I choose? Cosmote. So far, so good for me, but general opinion of them seems to be poor.

Andy – I would think about switching to Astral when my contract runs out, but apparently they are barred from providing service in Brasov. I haven’t read the legislation first hand, but in a previous thread here it was explained to me. Here we have only two choices: RDS (no thanks) and Romtelecom (previously tolerable).

By: Andy H

Andy H — Sun, 07 May 2006 20:58:00 +0000

We switched to Astral for our land line/ISP and it has been much better (and cheaper). Ciuc being a small town, though, I suspect we get advantages through everyone knowing someone at the company.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 07 May 2006 19:05:00 +0000

More than half of the phonecalls to other countries are already through third-party VoIP.

Romtelecom’s cell phone service, Cosmote already has more than a billion in losses and despite heavy advertising, it has a market share of only around 0.8%.

In 2005, there were more minutes spoken on cell-phones than on landlines.

They’re going down! Only a few years and they’ll be in the red. :-)

–bogdan

By: cherolex

cherolex — Sun, 07 May 2006 03:56:00 +0000

I had also some kind if internet blackout this week. Called my provider in Montreal and within 20-30 minutes the whole problem was solved. That’s comletely different from your story, unfortunately!