COSMOTE joins ETIS as a Full Member

News posted: 15 January 2010

ETIS is pleased to announce that COSMOTE has joined ETIS as a full member and is set to share knowledge with our members in our upcoming working groups and events.

The member representative will be Christos Christopoulos, COSMOTE Group IT Director and he had the following to say about joining ETIS. "We strongly believe that our participation in ETIS will be beneficial for us, providing us with the opportunity to share know-how, experience and ideas with the biggest fellow Telecoms Operators in Europe”. COSMOTE plans to be active in a number of ETIS working Groups and we are looking forward to welcoming them to the ETIS community and seeing them at future events.
 
About COSMOTE
COSMOTE, member of OTE Group, started commercial operations in Greece in April 1998, five years after its competitors, and in record time achieved the leading position in the domestic mobile market, obtaining the title of the most successful third entrant in Europe. Today, COSMOTE is the operator with the strongest presence in SE Europe, with 21.4 million customers in an extended market of 45 million people in four countries: Greece, Albania, Bulgaria and Romania through its subsidiaries AMC, GLOBUL and COSMOTE Romania. A milestone in COSMOTE’s history is the acquisition of GERMANOS, the most successful telecom retail network in the region which has enabled the Group to further enhance its market appeal and customer base growth momentum. In November 2009, the Group acquired Telemobil S.A. (Zapp), further enhancing its growth profile in Romania, gaining access to 3G license & infrastructure. Based on its state-of-the-art telecom network and its end-to-end product portfolio COSMOTE continues on its successful track record, based on constant growth and innovation.
 
2008 has been a year of very strong operational performance for COSMOTE Group in all markets. Revenues exceeded 3.26 billion Euro, while EBITDA profitability reached 1.14 billion, with EBITDA margin at 35%.
 
For more information on COSMOTE please visit: http://www.cosmote.gr

 


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