Today, June 20, 2008, ANRCTI hosted a debate on the regulations proposed for the electronic communications sector by the European Commission, including the main conclusions of the latest meeting of the European Regulators Group, a body which assembles all the regulatory authorities in the EU Member States.
Mr. Dan Georgescu, the ANRCTI President, presented ANRCTI’s position within ERG on the draft recommendation proposed by the European Commission concerning the tariffs for interconnection with mobile telephone networks.
„Romania upholds, within ERG, the position adopted by the European Commissioner Viviane Reding, i.e. promote lower mobile termination rates. In Romania, ANRCTI established cost-oriented tariffs, but there are many European countries where mobile termination rates are still high, which is detrimental to the Romanian operators. We do not want our operators to pay – for the calls terminated abroad – more than they receive for the calls terminated on the national networks, therefore we asked ERG to sustain calculation models that reflect the costs of an efficient operator,” Mr. Dan Georgescu highlighted.
The ERG analysis reveals that, in the past four years, at European level, the average mobile termination rates decreased by approximately 40% and that “ERG commits to carry on decreasing the interconnection tariffs and expects a similar decrease of such tariffs in the coming three years. ERG supports the application of a cost-based modelling which reflects the costs of an efficient operator”, Dan Georgescu showed.
During the meeting, Mr. Cristian Busoi, deputy of the European Parliament, presented the set of telecom regulations submitted these days to the vote of the Speciality Commissions of the European Parliament.
The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology exposed Romania’s official standpoint – which has been presented recently, during the reunion of the Ministers for Transport, Telecommunications and Energy – regarding the European Commission’s proposals on reforming telecom regulations.