UPC official: In Bucharest and Budapest Internet is faster, better and cheaper than in the West

The inhabitants of cities such as Bucharest, Budapest, and Warsaw enjoy higher-speed, better quality, and cheaper Internet services than Western European countries, largely because of the tight competition among providers of cable TV in the region, said in Bucharest Manuel Kohnstamm – communication and public policies manager of the group that owns UPC and chairman of the association of European cable operators.
“You will not find the services that you do in Central and Eastern Europe in Rome or in many other Western European cities,” said Manuel Kohnstamm at a conference dedicated to the TV and telecom market in the region, organised by Informa Telecoms & Media in Bucharest.
On the Romanian fixed Internet market UPC is no. 3, after RCS&RDS and Romtelecom. The maximum Internet download speed offered by UPC on the Romanian market is currently 24 Mbps, but the company is planning to increase speeds through investments in the network.
The Romanian Internet market, worth 200 million euros last year, has several years of accelerated growth ahead given that only one in three households was using high-speed Internet at the end of 2009.