New Year's, good business for Connex

The voice traffic (calls via the mobile phone) made by the Connex subscribers rose by 85.2% on December 31, 2004 and January 1 and 2, 2005, compared with the same time last year, company officials told Ziarul Financiar. A similar growth was registered during Christmas. At the same time, the amount of text messages (SMS) in the Connex network increased by 20.1% on December 25 and 26, 2004 compared with the same time in 2003, and by 230.8% from the previous week (December 18 and 19). Orange and Zapp had not released statistics by the time the story was ready for print. On December 24, 25, 31, 2003 and January 1 last year, the Romanians that owned a mobile phone sent more than 21 million SMS-es, which translated in almost $2 million revenue for the mobile telephony operators. ZF