Zapp Mobile is the first CDMA 450 MHz mobile phone operator in Romania, now part of Cosmote. Zapp has around 200,000 subscribers left, giving the CDMA network around 1% market share, and the number is declining because of migration of the customers to other GSM or UMTS networks. Zapp is currently aimed at business people and companies, especially due to its attractive billing plan, that allows easy creation of company networks through shared fees and special volume discounts, and because of fast and cheap mobile Internet access (up to 2.4 Mbit/s speed) in the absence of wireless wi-fi public networks. The coverage and quality of signal has improved consistently in the past years, at present Zapp reaching over 90% of the urban population, but is still far behind that of the competitions, that cover between 95 and 97 of the total population of the country. In 2006 Zapp got a UMTS 2100 MHz license.
Zapp Mobile is a company of Telemobil S.A. România, which was a spin-off of Telefonica Romania, the first Romanian mobile service provider (now defunct). On 30 June 2009 Zapp Mobile was acquired by OTE [1] and it is in the process of integration in OTE's Romanian mobile unit Cosmote Romania.
[edit] Radio Frequency Summary
The following is a list of known frequencies which Zapp Mobile employs in Romania:
Frequencies used on the Zapp Mobile Network
| MCC |
MNC |
Frequency |
Protocol |
Class |
Notes |
| 226 |
06 |
450 MHz |
CDMA2000 1xRTT/1xEVDO Rev. A |
2G |
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| 226 |
06 |
2100 MHz |
UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+ |
3G |
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[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Greece's OTE to buy Romanian mobile company Zapp
[edit] External links
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