[4] In Akamai's The State of the Internet Report covering the fourth quarter of 2012, Romania came 4th on average peak connection speed by EMEA country/region.
[5] In 2021, Romania ranked 5th in the world in terms of Internet connection via fixed broadband, having median download speeds of 214 Mbit/s.
[6] Based on Net Index report at the end of first half of 2013, Timișoara became the city with the highest download speed in the world.
[5] Based on Net Index data from April 2015, Cristești is the Romanian town with the fastest internet speed of 139.12 Mbit/s.
These ISPs usually provide their services through Ethernet over twisted pair, with a number of particularities and peculiarities: most were grassroot organizations and still have a feeling of community between subscribers and the management, speeds are usually divided in three categories: "LAN", "Metropolitan" and "International" with Metropolitan meaning a limited number of networks with which the micro-ISP has a peering agreement and sometimes the cable internet providers.
Some of these micro-ISP function completely legally, while others (generally the smaller ones) are organized informally in something like a permanent LAN party.
DIGI offers their FiberLink service to residential customers in individual homes through a GPON implementation,[citation needed] with gigabit speeds.
Usually, a subscription plan includes a certain amount of data traffic per month, after which the user is limited to 128 kbit/s download speeds.
Orange Romania offers a 3G/3G+ service with speeds of up to 43.2 Mbit/s in a limited number of cities and up to 21.6 Mbit/s in rural areas (on 900 and 2100 MHz frequencies).
On 8 September 2014, Vodafone announced its new technology: Supernet 4G - more often known as 4G+, which promises internet speeds of 300 Mbit/s using the mobile network.
According to OpenSignal report on 24 September 2015, Vodafone Romania is the fastest internet provider of LTE services in Europe with an average 36 Mbit/s for download.
On 20 August 2015, DIGI announced that they acquired a LTE license that was previously owned by 2K Telekom Romania SRL.
WiMAX services are offered by companies like Idilis, OpticNET, Necc Telecom and Rombit NET.
CityNet and the vice mayor of Botosani, Cosmin Andrei launched a new service offering free Wi-Fi hotspots in more than 30 locations at Summer Fest 2013, covering places such as schools, public parks, hospitals and landmark buildings.