iPhone 3GS will be launched in Romania on July 31, Thierry Millet (photo), the new CEO of Orange Romania announced yesterday in a press conference. The operator said that it had received already 1,000 preorders for this new model. The operator omitted to mention any details regarding the price.
“At the time being, its success equals that of the first launch, of iPhone 3G, and we expect things to continue similarly,” Thierry Millet declared.
The cheapest subscription for iPhone 3GS will be EUR 20 per month. Is predecessor, iPhone 3G, is available for monthly subscriptions starting at EUR 39 per month.
The mobile telephony operator Orange will open a centre supplying IT services for the companies of the France Telecom group, and wants to optimize the distribution network on the local market, company representatives declared on Thursday.
“The new centre will have up to 300 employees and will supply services for France Telecom companies of all countries. Romania is highly important to us, we are keenly interested in the Romanian market and, up to this date, our investments reached EUR 1.6 million. In Europe, Orange is the greatest broadband fixed telephony, VOIP and IPTV (wireless internet services, voice services via internet and television via internet, editor’s note) supplier, and our ambition regarding Romania is to provide more than mobile telephony services,” the Vice President of France Telecom for Europe and Egypt, Olaf Swantee.
Thierry Millet was, up to this moment, the interim manager of the operator, after the Richard Moat’s resignation, following the latter’s being appointed general manager of the T-Mobile Company in UK. Thierry Millet has over 20 years of experience with the company Orange – France Telecom, reaching several official positions at international level.
‘The aim of the company I represent is to keep the leadership on the relevant local market, but in a fair-play general climate. Orange is in a competition where there has to be fair-play. The company I represent wishes to continue to be number one, without resorting to strategic partnerships’, said the head of Orange Romania, hinting at the Zapp-Cosmote merger, Agerpres informs.
‘Romania is a very important market for Orange France Telecom, and the over EUR 1.6 M invested in our 11 years of work on the local market stands proof of that. We are affected by the economic crisis, but we do have the solutions to counteract the phenomenon’, said Millet.
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