Today, June 21, 2007, at the headquarters of the National Regulatory Authority for Communications and Information Technology (ANRCTI) took place the reunion of the Consultative Council, during which the following issues were debated: the actions plan of ANRCTI for 2007, the decision on the authorization regime for the provision of postal services and the decision on the Reference Interconnection Offer with the public fixed telephony operated by S.C. Romtelecom” S.A..
ANRCTI proposed an ambitious plan for 2007, envisaging the activities which pursue the fulfilment of all major objectives of the regulatory activity. In the first half of 2007, ANRCTI’s priorities were: the strategic analysis of the Romanian electronic communications sector, the analysis of the broadcasting market and of the interconnection market for the purpose of call termination in the public telephony networks at fixed locations, the preparation for the introduction of the number portability service and of the new regulations regarding the numbering resources, the launch of the sixth public tender for the installation of telecentres in 131 localities in the rural area and the elaboration of the regulatory framework for the designation of the universal service provider for the Directory Enquiry Service regarding the subscribers, as well as making available the subscribers directories.
Besides continuing and completing the above mentioned projects, ANRCTI set out the following priorities for the second half of the year: undertake new analyses on the wholesale market, launch the seventh tender for the installation of at least 120 telecentres. Among other significant projects, one may also count the elaboration of the procedure of allocating national short numbers for the Directory Enquiry Service regarding the subscribers (118) and national short numbers for the services of national public interest (19vx), as well as the elaboration of the procedure of allocating numbers harmonized at European level for the services with social character (116). In the following months, ANRCTI shall concentrate on the establishment of the indicators which must be reported to ANRCTI and shall continue to monitor the compliance with the obligations imposed on the National Company Romanian Post S.A. (CNPR) in its capacity as universal service provider.
The decision regarding the authorization regime for the provision of postal services regulates the authorization procedure of the persons that intend to provide postal services, as well as the conditions under which the postal services providers may benefit from the general authorization regime. The general authorization regime is the legal regime adopted by ANRCTI, which establishes the rights and obligations of the postal services providers and allows the provision of postal services by notifying the intention to provide postal services, without achieving of explicit decision from ANRCTI.
As regards the draft decision on the Reference Interconnection Offer with the public fixed telephony network operated by S.C. „Romtelecom” S.A., the respective draft is intended to amend and complete the ANRC President’s Decision no.147/2002 on the principles and prerequisites of the reference interconnection offer with the public fixed telephony network of Romtelecom. The draft proposes that within the new reference offer (which is to be presented to the operators of the companies requesting the interconnection) to be included certain information regarding absolutely all the tariffs Romtelecom may charge from the companies interconnected with its network and clarifies the modalities of establishing the tariffs for the interconnection links in the case of the long distance interconnections and in the case of co-location.