Follow enough Romanians on Twitter and it becomes all too apparent all too quickly that unreliable internet connections are one of the great gripes of the country’s twittering classes. There is little point in Romania having the fourth fastest average internet connection in the world (true: read more here) if you can’t use it for [...]
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Romtelecom Clicknet: Customer service fail
Incredible. Just days after we were singing their praises, Romtelecom’s excellent internet service Clicknet has let us down. Very badly. Not, we hasten to add, in terms of the internet connection itself. There can be no doubt that Clicknet supplies the most reliable internet service in Romania. This is not the issue. The issue is [...]
That’s us out of business then…
Romanian media slam plans to curb freedoms The Associated Press Wednesday, March 18, 2009 BUCHAREST, Romania: Media freedom groups criticized Romanian government plans that would allow people to sue for libel on behalf of the dead. The groups said draft legislation would limit press freedoms amid a continuing struggle between journalists and authorities since Romania [...]
Good, original Romanian start-ups
Talking last week to friends who are far more clued up in the world of technology than we are, Romania was spoken of very highly as a source of both programmers and ideas. The former we knew, the latter… hmmm. Not so sure. There are successful Romanian start-ups all over the place (Trilulilu, Best Jobs [...]
A New Low for Romanian Journalism
Sorry to go on, and on, and on, but a headline we saw today defied belief… ‘Five Dead at Amsterdam Airport; Adi Mutu Can’t Fly to Amsterdam’. It appears on the website of www.sport.ro, a sports broadcaster, Sport.ro (known as ‘No Sport.ro’ for the fact that it shows very little actual sport), owned by Pro [...]