Romtelecom and Cosmote get Raiffeisen Bank's telecom services account

The mixed sales team of Cosmote and Romtelecom, two of the largest telecom operators on the market, with the same majority shareholder, last year gained the telecom account of Raiffeisen Bank, one of the biggest integrated communication services contracts in Romania, worth several million euros a year, according to the data obtained by ZF. Romtelecom had been providing telecom services to the bank since 2005, so that the main novelty brought by the contract signed last year is Raiffeisen Bank’s decision to replace its previous provider of mobile telephony services, Vodafone, with Cosmote. Employees’ phone numbers remained unchanged, but were transferred from Vodafone to Cosmote network, according to the data available on portabilitate.ro website. Raiffeisen has over 6,000 employees. Vodafone also provided fixed communication services to Raiffeisen, but it is not clear whether the bank kept such services or not. Contacted by ZF, Vodafone representatives did not comment on the information by edition close.