Tuesday, March 25, 2003, The National Regulatory Authority for Communications (ANRC) informed the mobile telephony operators “Cosmorom” S.A., “Mobifon” S.A., “Orange Romania” S.A. and “Telemobil” S.A. on their obligations regarding the interconnection conditions.
The following decisions:
· 123/EI regarding the interconnection with the public mobile telephony network operated by “Cosmorom”– S.A. as regards call terminations;
· 124/EI regarding the interconnection with the public mobile telephony network operated by “Mobifon”– S.A. as regards call terminations;
· 125/EI regarding the interconnection with the public mobile telephony network operated by “Orange Romania”– S.A. as regards call terminations;
· 126/EI regarding the interconnection with the public mobile telephony network operated by “Telemobil” – S.A. as regards call terminations.
include the obligations imposed by ANRC to “Cosmorom”S.A., “Mobifon”S.A., “Orange Romania”S.A. and “Telemobil” S.A., designated as operators with significant power on the market of the access to their own mobile telephony network, regarding call terminations, in accordance with G.O. no.34/2002 regarding access to public electronic communications networks and the associated infrastructure, as well as their interconnection, approved with amendments and completions by Law no. 527/2002.
The obligations for “Cosmorom”S.A. and “Telemobil” S.A. are: to make public the interconnection tariffs, to provide certain services and access to certain facilities associated to the interconnection of the public mobile telephony network they operate with the networks of other operators, for call terminations.
“Mobifon”S.A. and “Orange Romania”S.A. were imposed further obligations, such as: nondiscrimination, separate accounting, and cost based tariffs. Thus, the two operators must implement, no later than July 1, 2004, a LRIC (Long Run Incremental Cost) cost calculation approved by ANRC. The termination tariffs will be determined based on this method of cost calculating. Until this calculation method is implemented, the interconnection tariffs charged by “Mobifon”S.A. and “Orange Romania”S.A. must observe certain maximum limits, as follows:
· until December 31, the tariffs shall not exceed 11 USD cents/minute;
· from January 1, 2004 to the date when the interconnection tariffs are calculated based on a LRIC cost calculation approved by ANRC, the tariffs shall not exceed 10 USD cents/minute. The above tariffs correspond to peak hours.