The first Romtelecom-COSMOTE Romania joint offer: broadband Internet and mobile telephony in one discount package for both residential and business clients
Romtelecom and COSMOTE Romania introduce the first in a series of joint initiatives targeting residential and business customers. The new package offers a 10% discount on monthly access fees of the first year for all new ClickNet and COSMOTE residential and corporate subscriptions, when purchased together. The discount applies to both Internet and mobile subscriptions’ monthly fees on top of all discounts and offers that are part of current promotions. The offer starts at 11.2 Euro/month (VAT included) for a mobile and internet subscription package and is available until January 7, 2008, in any of the Romtelecom, COSMOTE, GERMANOS and Internity stores across Romania.
“More value for all communication services, in one package only. Customers can save more and have a 10% discount on top of all the generous promotion prices that both companies offer for broadband Internet and mobile telephony. This is just the first step in a co-operation that will become increasingly stronger on the Romanian market”, stated Yorgos Ioannidis, CEO Romtelecom.
“We are very pleased that, joining forces with Romtelecom, we launch a discount package that combines high quality ADSL connection with the most accessible mobile subscriptions. This offer marks the beginning of our co-operation with Romtelecom aimed at offering integrated, combined products and services that meet the real needs of the Romanian market”, said COSMOTE Romania CEO, Nikolaos Tsolas.
The offer allows both residential and business customers to benefit from a 10% discount on first year’s monthly access fees for any of COSMOTE’s 8 postpaid subscription plans and 16 business packages, the most competitive in the market.
COSMOTE’s residential postpaid subscriptions vary between 3-53 Euro/month (VAT excluded) and offer up to 480 national minutes, flat tariffs to all networks, as well as a wide selection of free mobile handsets. Postpaid customers may choose from a series of accessible on-net voice, SMS and MMS extra options, such as 500 minutes and 500 SMS on net for only 3 Euro/month (VAT excluded). Those that subscribe to two-year contracts also receive four months of free access fees and 800 national minutes included.
The company provides COSMOTE Business and COSMOTE Business Share packages to corporate clients. COSMOTE Business is the complete communication solution for companies of all sizes, comprising of 8 tariff plans that include 10 to 1,000 national minutes and accessible tariffs based on call destinations. Subscribers of COSMOTE Business packages may activate the Business Group extra option, offering free unlimited communication among the company’s employees. COSMOTE Business Share also includes 8 tariff plans and is the most advantageous share subscription offer in the market, providing 120 to 5,000 national minutes. COSMOTE Business Share offers unlimited free communication between users of the same group.
ClickNet, Romtelecom’s innovative youth – oriented brand, has a positive track record in the market, becoming the favorite option for new broadband subscribers and currently reaching more than 300,000 clients.
Romtelecom holds one of the most advanced networks in Central and Eastern Europe, which went through a complex modernization and upgrading period. The total number of installed ports was approximately 230,000 at the beginning of 2007 and is expected to reach over 600,000 by the end of the year.
The 10% discount under the common offer with COSMOTE applies to the following promotional packages available until the end of the year: ClickNet 1 Mbps - 7.5 Euro/month, ClickNet 3 Mbps - 12.5 euro/month, ClickNet 6 Mbps - 24.5 Euro/month (VAT excluded). According to the current offer, besides the 50% subscription discount for the entire period of the contract, the clients benefit of up to 6 month free of charge subscriptions and don’t have to pay for the ADSL modems. ClickNet provides unlimited high speed Internet access, based on the most popular access technology in Europe, ADSL.
The joint Romtelecom-COSMOTE Romania offer is promoted through an integrated marketing communications campaign comprising both traditional and online advertising.