Vodafone Romania

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Vodafone Romania S.A.

Formerly	Connex Connex-Vodafone
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Mobile Telecommunications
Founded	1997; 27 years ago (1997) (as Connex GSM)
Headquarters	Bucharest, Romania
Key people	Achilleas Kanaris (CEO)
Revenue	818,000,000 Euro (2018)
Net income	38,100,000 Euro (2018)
Number of employees	2,340 (2018)
Parent	Vodafone Group Plc
Website	www.vodafone.ro

Vodafone Romania S.A. is a Romanian telecommunications operator owned by Vodafone Group Plc.^[1] It launched in April 1997 as the first GSM network in Romania.

Before acquisition by Vodafone Group Plc, it was known as Connex, after which it was rebranded Connex-Vodafone and in April 2006, the Connex name was dropped, the operator being simply known as Vodafone Romania, aligning itself with the global Vodafone brand.

Vodafone Romania is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vodafone Group Plc, and is the seventh-largest Vodafone subsidiary 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 the main competitor of Orange for the 22.8 million active mobile telephony users in Romania.^[2] Connex, the ancestor of Vodafone Romania, held the largest number of subscribers, except the year 2000, until September 2004, when Orange edged ahead.

The motto of Vodafone is Trăiește 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).