17 May 2011
ANCOM has launched today, at its headquarters in Bucharest, an anniversary exhibition on the occasion of celebrating 20 years of modern radio spectrum management in Romania. The exhibition presents to the public a series of radio equipment items, documents and various materials illustrating the evolution over time of Romanian communications. Among the items exposed, you may find models of the last ebon telephone sets manufactured in our country, telephone used on the battle field during World War II, the first frequency measurement apparatus used by the Authority’s experts, as well as models of mobile telephones offered in Romania by the first operators of mobile telephone services and an impressive collection of stamps displaying the evolution in time of the telecom sector.
“We wanted to properly mark the World Telecommunication Day we celebrate each year on 17 May by showing that we have a history even older than the date when this day began being celebrated worldwide”, Cătălin Marinescu, the President of ANCOM, said.
This year we celebrate 20 years since the establishment in Romania of the first institutions in charge of radio spectrum management. In 1990, the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications was reorganised by separating the executive responsibilities from the operating and exploitation ones. This is when the Ministry of Communications and ROM-POST-TELECOM, the first Romanian ”national company”, were established. This company took over the operational activities in the field of telecommunications, radiocommunications and post, whereas the Ministry remained in charge of the elaboration and enforcement of the policies, strategies and regulations in the field.
2011 marks 20 years since, following its reorganisation in 1991, ROM-POST-TELECOM was split into four national companies: Romtelecom, Romanian Post, Radiocommunications and the General Inspectorate for Radiocommunications (IGR) and one company – Bancpost.
The body that was to become the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) was created 146 years ago, upon the signing in Paris, on 17 May 1865, of the first International Telegraph Convention. 17 May was declared World Telecommunication Day in 1969.
The exhibition is open for visitors from 17 May 2011 until 31 August 2011, Monday to Thursday between 08:30 and 20:00 hours, and on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 08:30 to 17:00, at the Authority’s headquarters in 2 Delea Nouă Street, sector 3, Bucharest. The entrance is free.
