The operator controlled by Zoltan Teszari and Romtelecomcontinue the battle over the acquisition of the several hundredsmall cable operators with merely thousands of clients.
RCS&RDS Group and Romtelecom, through its own cable operatorNextGen, which are involved in a fierce fight over market share,continue to be the most active operators in terms of acquisitionsof small cable TV and Internet providers. There were more than 500providers of cable TV services in mid last year, even thoughRCS&RDS and UPC alone accounted for 2.7 millions of the 3.4million cable TV clients.
The takeover of the client base in Sighişoara of the Telesonoperator was, market sources say, the latest confrontation of thetwo companies. Romtelecom is said to have initially discussed withTeleson last year, but then RCS&RDS came with an aggressiveoffer and managed to sign an agreement with the company held byPD-L (Democratic-Liberal Party) Senator Petru Başa. Several sourceson the market say that RCS&RDS comes up with counteroffersalmost every time Romtelecom starts talks with smaller cableoperators. Romtelecom's acquisitions are supervised by OvidiuGhiman, who was RCS&RDS' commercial manager until 2009.
Romtelecom is number three on the TV market with one millionclients and is trying to catch up with leader RCS&RDS andleaving number two, UPC, behind.
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