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Zapp Mobile

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Zapp
Company typePrivate
IndustryMobile telecommunications
FoundedApril 1993 as Telefonica Romania
Defunct1 December 2017
FateAcquired by OTE, and slowly dissolved from 2011 to 2018
HeadquartersBaloteşti, Ilfov County, Romania
Key people
Chris Bataillard, CEO
Websitewww.zapp.ro

Zapp Mobile was the first CDMA 450 MHz mobile phone operator in Romania, now part of Telekom Romania Mobile. In 2006 Zapp got a UMTS 2100 MHz license.

Zapp Mobile was a company of Telemobil S.A. România, which was a spin-off of Telefónica Romania, the first Romanian mobile service provider (now defunct). Telefónica Romania acquired a NMT license on 22 March 1992 and the mobile operator called "Telemobil" went live in April 1993.[1] On 30 June 2009 Zapp Mobile was acquired by OTE[2] and it is in the process of integration in OTE's Romanian mobile unit Cosmote Romania.

As of 24 March 2013 Zapp CDMA licence expired and the CDMA 450 network was closed down.

Radio Frequency Summary

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The following is a list of known frequencies Zapp Mobile employed in Romania:

Frequencies used on the Zapp Mobile Network
MCC MNC Frequency Band number Protocol Class Notes
226 06 900 MHz 8 UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+ (21.6 Mbit/s)/(5.76 Mbit/s) 3G Not operational - shut down as of end of March 2023
226 06 2100 MHz 1 UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+/DC-HSPA+ (43.2 Mbit/s)/(5.76 Mbit/s) 3G Not operational - shut down as of end of March 2023[3]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Istoria primului operator de telefonie mobilă din România - de la apariție, până la dispariție". 30 November 2017.
  2. ^ Greece's OTE to buy Romanian mobile company Zapp
  3. ^ "3G Retirem Landing Page - Telekom".
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