RCS & RDS

Digi Romania
Private
Industry Telecommunications
Founded 1993
Headquarters Bucharest, Romania
Number of locations
 308 (in Romania as February 2016)
Area served

Romania
Hungary
Italy

Spain
Key people
 Serghei Bulgac CEO
Products Telephone, Internet, Wireless, Television
Revenue Increase €916 million (2017)[1]
Increase €61.7 million (2017)[1]
Number of employees
 over 12,000 (2017)[2]
Website digiromania.ro

RCS & RDS (formerly Romanian Cable System & Romanian Data System) is one of the biggest telecommunication operators in Central and Eastern Europe and the largest cable and satellite television company in Romania.[3][4] It offers cable television, cable internet, VOIP, 3G services and since 2004 satellite television (Digi TV).

It provides services in Romania as well as in Spain, Hungary, and Italy.[3]

The company is controlled indirectly by RCS Management.[5] The shareholders of this company are:[6]

  • Cable Communications Systems NV – 88.54%
  • RCS&RDS SA with – 7.83%
  • Zoltán Teszári – 1.77%
  • 14 individuals associates – 1.86%

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 2017,[7] the company has:

It is controlled by Zoltán Teszári, the wealthiest IT entrepreneur in Romania.[4]

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).[8]

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 and FDD 2100 MHz band 1.
  • Digi Move: 3G mobile internet service available in Hungary.

RCS&RDS Digital TV Channels

Beside the base package, it offers additional subscriptions.[9]

RCS&RDS Digi.Mobil in Romania

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

Frequencies used on the Digi.Mobil Romania Network
MCCMNCFrequencyBand numberProtocolClassNotes
22605900 MHz8UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+ (21.6 Mbps/5.76 Mbps)3GRCS&RDS started using this frequency band from 6 April 2014 for better indoor coverage.
226052100 MHz1UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+ (21.6 Mbps/5.76 Mbps)3G
226052100 MHz1LTE (75 Mbps/37.5 Mbps)4GFDD-LTE network launched on 6 October 2016[10]
226052600 MHz38LTE-TDD (112 Mbps)4GTDD-LTE network launched on 1 October 2015

RCS&RDS Digi.Mobil in Hungary

Frequencies used on the Digi.Mobil Hungary Network
MCCMNCFrequencyBand numberProtocolClassNotes
216031800 MHz3LTE (50 Mbit/s)4GDeployment in progress.[11]

Notes

  • RCS & RDS is Romania's largest adopter of Fiber to the building (FTTB) and Fiber to the home (FTTH).
  • RCS & RDS also operates two mobile virtual networks over Movistar in Spain and 3 in Italy for the Romanians living in these countries.
  • In February 2011 RCS & RDS launched mobile internet service in Hungary under the Digi Move brand. This service is run over Telenor Hungary's infrastructure.

References

  1. 1 2 https://www.romania-insider.com/digi-communications-dividends/
  2. ↑ "RCS & RDS numeşte un vicepreşedinte de la una din companiile pe care le-a preluat" (in Romanian). money.ro. November 19, 2009. Archived from the original on April 16, 2013.
  3. 1 2 "Despre RCS&RDS" (in Romanian). RCS & RDS.
  4. 1 2 http://www.wall-street.ro/slideshow/IT-C-Tehnologie/73140/Ce-masuri-au-luat-RCS-RDS-UPC-si-Romtelecom-pentru-a-trece-de-criza.html#slide_title
  5. ↑ Adevărata faţă a conducerii RCS-RDS Archived 2013-06-09 at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ↑ Changes in the RCS&RDS shareholding structure, June 07, 2012, BR Business Review
  7. ↑ Company financial report for 2017
  8. ↑ http://www.bmiresearch.com/news-and-views/digi-to-barely-impact-mobile-market-share-in-hungary
  9. ↑ http://www.tvchannellists.com/List_of_Channels_on_RCS%26RDS List of Channels on RCS & RDS
  10. ↑ http://www.digi24.ro/stiri/sci-tech/lumea-digitala/digi-mobil-anunta-lansarea-serviciul-de-date-4g-si-in-banda-de-frecvente-2100-mhz-582616
  11. ↑ "ITU Operational Bulletin No. 1109". ITU. 1 October 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
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