Telekom he wants to run away from Romania as quickly as possible, and this led to long negotiations with Orange, which ended with an agreement to sell the fixed services division, together with all the customers, 4.6 million in number. We are talking about a very important transaction, which would bring hundreds of millions of euros into the accounts of those from Telekom, but which must also be approved by the Romanian Government, which owns over 40% of the shares of the company that owns the mobile division.
Telekom thus very quickly gets rid of a division with which it struggled quite a lot in recent years, having fierce competition from RCS & RDS, the leader in television and fixed internet. Telekom managed to use this division to gain access to Orange's mobile phone infrastructure in areas where it had poor coverage, and offered the French access to its fixed infrastructure for internet and television services.
FUGA Telekom from Romania leaves MILLIONS of customers CONFUSED
Telekom wants to get rid of the mobile services division as quickly as possible, but here things are much more complicated than they seem, and this is because RCS & RDS is only interested in buying a part of it. Those from RCS & RDS would like to buy only the mobile infrastructure and the radio licenses, without taking over the customers from Telekom, and here more than 4 million customers remain without a clear situation regarding what will happen if the transaction will take place.
Telekom could stay with these customers who would continue to benefit from services under the same conditions, only using an infrastructure owned by RCS & RDS, but this situation would be extremely complicated. I don't think that Telekom wants to become an MNVO, so RCS & RDS will most likely have to take over all the customers of the Germans, or completely give up the idea of taking over their infrastructure and radio licenses from Romania.
Telekom lasted only 5 years in Romania, during which it struggled to make a profit, it had numerous problems with millions of lost customers, and in the end it declared itself defeated and left.
