The Organisational Structure of Telecommunications Companies

Volume 2 ♦ Issue 2 ♦ December 2010

The Organisational Structure of Telecommunications Companies
Case study: The OTE Group
Madelaine Pepenel
”Constantin Brâncoveanu University”of Piteşti, [e-mail]

Ioana-Iulica Voicu
”Constantin Brâncoveanu University” of Piteşti, [e-mail]

Abstract:
Transnational corporations today are proving to be an important driver of the world economy. In turn, companies that offer mobile communications services have become important means to build bridges between people and between companies, regardless of their location. To maintain optimal functioning of these organizations, a strong and also flexible “backbone” is needed. A transnational company that is important to the Balkan region, operating in the telecommunications area, is the OTE SA company, based in Greece. The company formed together with its subsidiaries the OTE Group. The OTE Group carries out activities in Romania through the mobile subsidiary Cosmote Romania, which was imposed in our country as a major mobile operator.

Keywords:
Transnational
communications.

company,

telecommunications

services,

mobile

JEL classification: A10; E00; F23.

1. Introduction:
Group structure and organization of OTE Telecommunications Company
Hellenic Telecommunication Organization SA (OTE SA) is a traditional supplier of telecommunications services in Greece, which forms, together with its subsidiaries, one of the leading telecommunications companies in South East Europe - OTE Group. The group provides fixed telephony services, broadband Internet, data transmission, leased lines and mobile services in Greece, Romania, Albania and Bulgaria.
OTE Company SA holds 54% of the shares of RomTelecom, the incumbent telecommunications operator in Romania, providing services through fixed line (voice, broadband Internet, leased lines) and Satellite TV Service, as shown by Figure no. 1 below. The OTEGlobe SA operates in the same

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