Getting Internet service in Romania is a difficult task because while there are many companies, there’s no competition. Each company has a slice of a given area and runs its service without much interference from the others. Thus you can reach ridiculous situations where you live across the street from a provider’s point of sale, but you can’t get service from them.
That means, discussing which is the best is a moot point. First reason is the aforementioned: it doesn’t matter which is the best, it only matters who servers your area. Then comes two: even for a given provider, the service quality for a given providers varies greatly even within the same city.
But there is still one thing common to most Romanian ISPs: generous download bandwidth but stingy upload. This stems mainly from the fact that the Romanian language doesn’t use its term for bandwidth for Interned. In fact, in Romanian we just say speed so the difference between bandwidth and speed melts to the point where regular customers can’t tell the difference. continue reading…
