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Vodafone covers 99.31% of the Romanian population, with over 9.804.000 subscribers as of February 2010. Vodafone provides roaming agreements with 310 international operators in 143 countries. Vodafone Romania is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vodafone Group plc, and is the seventh-largest Vodafone subisidiary in the world by number of subscribers. Vodafone became the majority stakeholder after it brought 79% of Mobifon's shares from Canadian company Telesystems International Wireless, which had been the previous majority shareholder. Furthermore it recently acquired 5% of Mobifon's shares from Canadian Entrepreneur Elani Grobler. The operator is in head-to-head competition with Orange for the 15.3 million mobile telephony users in Romania. Connex, the ancestor of Vodafone Romania, held the largest number of subscribers until September 2004, when Orange edged ahead. The motto of Vodafone is Trăieşte fiecare clipă (rendered in English by the company as Make the most of now, a more accurate translation would be "Live every moment"). Previous mottos were: Tu faci viitorul (You create the future) and Viitorul sună bine (The future sounds good). |
