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RCS and RDS

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Type
  
Private

Key people
  
Damian Alexandru

Headquarters
  
Bucharest, Romania

Founder
  
Zoltán Teszári

Industry
  
Telecommunications

Number of employees
  
6,500 (2009)

Revenue
  
476 million EUR (2013)

Founded
  
1994

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Area served
  
Romania Hungary Italy Spain

Products
  
Telephone, Internet, Wireless, Television

Number of locations
  
308 (in Romania as February 2016)

Subsidiaries
  
Digi TV, NetPoint SRL, RCS Terrasat Comp S.R.L.

Parent organization
  
Cable Communications Systems N.V.

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RCS & RDS (formerly Romanian Cable System & Romanian Data System) is one of the biggest telecommunication operators in South-Eastern Europe and the largest cable and satellite television company in Romania. It offers cable television, cable internet, VOIP, 3G services and since 2004 satellite television (Digi TV).

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It provides services in Romania, Spain, Hungary, Italy.

The company is controlled indirectly by RCS Management. The shareholders of this company are:

  • Zoltán Teszári – 58.92%
  • Sfetozar Bugarszki – 7.23%
  • Nicusor Dorel Schelean – 6.98%
  • Mihai Patap – 5.31%
  • Maria Docea – 4.56%
  • Ioan Bendei – 4.51%
  • Gheorghe Maftei – 4.51%
  • Dorina Schelean – 3.02%
  • Cable Communications Systems NV – 2.47%
  • Traian Aurelian Sirian – 2.18%.

    • History

    The company, which is based in Bucharest, Romania, was formed in April 2005 by the de jure merger of Romania Cable Systems (RCS) and Romania Data Systems (RDS). The companies were under the same ownership from the very beginning and operating de facto as a single unit long before that.

    As of 2007, the company has:

  • 2.6 million customers for the satellite television service DigiTV.Satelit.
  • 1.6 million customers for the cable TV service DigiTV.Cablu.
  • 1.5 million for the landline phone system service Digi.Tel.
  • 2.0 million for the mobile phone service Digi.Mobil.
  • 1.1 million for its broadband Internet service Digi.Net.

    • It is controlled by Zoltán Teszári, the wealthiest IT entrepreneur in Romania.

    In 2014 the company controlled the fourth largest mobile operator in Romania, and succeeded in winning a mobile operator licence in Hungary (to be deployed by 2016).

    Services

  • Digi.Net: Residential or Business broadband connection on cable, FTTB or FTTH infrastructure.
  • Digi.Net Mobil: 3G mobile internet service available in Romania.
  • Digi.Tel: Residential or business VOIP on cable, FTTB or FTTH infrastructure.
  • Digi.Tv: Satellite television and Cable television.
  • Digi.Mobil: 3G mobile telephony and mobile internet operating on 2100 MHz and 900 MHz and 4G mobile internet operating on TDD 2600 MHz band 38.
  • Digi Move: 3G mobile internet service available in Hungary.

    • RCS&RDS Digital TV Channels

    Beside the base package, it offers additional subscriptions.

    RCS&RDS Digi.Mobil in Romania

    The following is a list of known frequencies which Digi.Mobil employs in Romania:

    References

    RCS & RDS Wikipedia
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