Press Releases
2025-11-06
ANCOM: Delivery of Black Friday online orders
During the Black Friday promotional period, ANCOM recommends users to carefully review delivery options and conditions, and to verify the authenticity of all information throughout the online purchasing process. Beyond evaluating offers based on price, product authenticity, return policies, and...
2025-10-29
DSA: New rules on researchers’ access to Very Large Online Platforms' data
Today, the Delegated Act on Data Access, adopted under the Digital Services Act, has entered into force. The document establishes the legal framework through which qualified researchers will be able to apply for access to non-publicly accessible data from Very...
2025-10-28
ANCOM's recommendations regarding Black Friday online offers for telephone, internet or television services
Before the launch of Black Friday promotional offers, ANCOM reminds users that they have the right to be informed by telephone, internet or television services providers about the conditions for concluding online contracts, with our without the purchase of equipment....
2025-10-28
DSA: European Commission shows that TikTok and Meta do not comply with transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act
Preliminary findings of the European Commission’s verification actions show that TikTok and Meta have breached certain transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA). According to European Commission’s announcement, both platforms have breached the obligation to grant researchers adequate access...
2025-10-21
Romania’s 17-year portability milestone:13.6 million numbers switched operators while staying with their users
Since the launch of the number portability service in October 2008, more than 13.6 million phone numbers have been transferred between operators within Romania’s fixed and mobile networks. Regulated by ANCOM, number portability enables users to choose the most suitable...
2025-10-20
ANCOM warns about involuntary roaming risk in border counties
The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) draws the attention of mobile telephony users to the risk of unintended use of the roaming service in border counties, which may occur even if they have not physically crossed...
2025-10-16
ANCOM facilitates interinstitutional dialogue to combat audio-visual content piracy
The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) organized today a working session with representatives of the National Audiovisual Council (CNA), the Ministry of Culture, the Romanian Copyright Office (ORDA) and the Romanian Audiovisual Communications Association (ARCA), aiming...
2025-10-15
Romania’s postal sector sees parcels outpace items of correspondence for the first time in 2024
In 2024, parcel volumes surged to 335 million items, overtaking correspondence traffic (267 million items) for the first time. Moreover, investments in the provision of postal services exceeded 500 million lei (+23%). Supporting parcel traffic was a key driver for...
2025-10-13
DSA: European Commission initiates the first actions to investigate compliance with measures for the protection of minors in the online environment
European Commission has requested Snapchat, YouTube, Apple App Store and Google Play to provide information in order to understand the measures they have taken to protect minors within their services. This action follows the adoption of the Guidelines on Protection...
2025-10-09
Invitation to the BEREC public debriefing of the 33rd plenary meetings
2017.12.07 On 13 December 2017, in Brussels, BEREC will hold a public debriefing to give an overview of the outcomes of the 33rd plenary meetings of 7-8 December in Copenhagen, Denmark. The BEREC Chair Sébastien Soriano will, on this occasion,...
2025-10-09
Broadband usage in Romania – generated mostly by fixed internet
“Broadband internet traffic over the 19 million fixed and mobile connections in Romania reached almost 2.7 million TB in the first half of 2016. Despite the increasing usage of smartphones or tablets for internet access, these mobile devices generate only...
2025-10-09
ANCOM InfoCentre: practical information for telecom users is just a click away
At the beginning of 2014, there were more than 4 million fixed telephony subscribers in Romania, almost 23 million active mobile SIM cards, 46% of the households had a fixed broadband internet connection, and more than 85% of these had...
2025-10-09
ANRCTI Suggests the Review of the National Numbering Plan
Today, February 2, 2007, ANRCTI submits to public consultation three draft decisions that are intended to modify the way the numbering resources are managed in Romania. The main amendments refer to the closing of the National Numbering Plan, to the...
2025-10-08
ANCOM issues new licenses for Vodafone, Digi and Telekom Romania Mobile Communications
ANCOM has issued new licenses for Vodafone Romania, Digi Romania and Telekom Romania Mobile Communications, after their receiving the Authority’s prior consent for the assignment and lease of frequency usage rights, as well as for the temporary sharing of frequency...
2025-10-08
Spoofing via phone number: what ANCOM does and what users can do
Spoofing is a method of impersonating a caller’s identity by displaying a phone number that does not belong to the person actually making the call (Caller Line Identification – CLI). Thus, fraudsters use real numbers, belonging to other users, to...
2025-09-12
ANCOM: Users of electronic communications services must be informed when exhausting their included resources and reaching 250 lei additional costs
The National Authority for Administration and Regulation in Communications of Romania (ANCOM) reminds users of telephone and internet access services that they have the right to be informed when they have fully consumed the resources included in the subscription and...
2025-09-02
What users need to know before concluding an electronic communications contract: the Contract Summary is mandatory
ANCOM recalls that, according to the regulations in force, providers of telephone, internet or television services have the obligation to provide the users, before concluding a contract, with a Contract Summary sheet. This document summarizes the most important information about...
2025-08-14
Walkie-talkie stations, wireless microphones and sound systems were the subject of a national control campaign
Between June 19, 2025 – July 11, 2025, the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) conducted a thematic control campaign at national level on the radio equipment market. The campaign targeted walkie-talkie radio stations, wireless microphones and...
2025-08-04
Users may reconsider their porting decision: how to cancel a number portability process
Portability allows telephone users to keep their phone numbers while switching providers in pursuit of the best offers on the market. However, there are situations where users reconsider the decision to port their numbers, for example, where the current provider...
2025-07-24
Netograf: In 2024, the average download speed reached 446 Mbps for fixed cable internet and 58 Mbps for mobile internet
According to ANCOM's report on the quality of internet access service for 2024, published today, the national average download speed recorded a value of 446 Mbps, while the national average upload speed reached the value of 385 Mbps for fixed...