Press Releases
2018-08-27
ANCOM has verified the coverage of voice services in Romania
During January-July 2018, ANCOM carried out an extensive campaign for measuring the national coverage of voice services, conducting measurements in 12,786 localities inhabited by more than 19.8 million of the 20.1 million people in Romania. “ANCOM has carried out this...
2018-08-23
ANCOM launches public consultation on the Terms of Reference for the T-DAB+ frequencies award procedure in Romania
ANCOM will auction out the rights to use radio frequencies for the operation of one national T-DAB+ terrestrial digital audio broadcasting multiplex in the 223-230 MHz band (TV channel 12) and of one national T-DAB+ terrestrial digital audio broadcasting multiplex...
2018-08-13
Radio equipment without CE marking are illegal and can block or interrupt emergency calls to 112!
Radio equipment without the CE (Conformité Européenne, i.e. “European conformity”) marking must be immediately disconnected, as it produces harmful interference with the authorised radiocommunications services, including with those designed for rescuing human lives. Equipment without CE marking, which typically comes...
2018-08-09
Regulations on IP interconnection for telephony services, under public consultation
ANCOM has launched for public consultation a draft decision setting the harmonised technical conditions and the tariffs of IP interconnection-related services for fixed and mobile call termination on the public telephony networks. ANCOM deemed regulatory intervention in the field of...
2018-08-02
Collaboration protocol between ANPC and ANCOM
22 February 2018 – The president of the National Authority for Consumer Protection, Marcel Bogdan Pandelica, and the president of the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM), Sorin Mihai Grindeanu, have renewed the collaboration protocol for protecting...
2018-08-02
ANCOM proposes technical conditions and tariffs for access to the RCS&RDS infrastructure in Oradea
ANCOM launches for public consultation a draft decision setting the technical and economic conditions for the electronic communications network providers’ access to the RCS&RDS’ physical infrastructure in Oradea. “For the first time, ANCOM establishes the access conditions, including tariffs, to...
2018-07-20
Consultation on the maximum tariffs that public authorities can charge for the communications operators’ access to public property
ANCOM has launched for public consultation a draft decision on setting the maximum tariffs to be charged for the communications operators’ exercising the right of access on, over, in or under state owned public property. ”The maximum tariffs proposed by...
2018-07-19
The 5G auction will be organised in 2019
ANCOM has debated and adopted, in a Consultative Council session together with the industry, the national action plan and schedule for the allotment of the 470-790 MHz frequency band as well as the associated regulatory options, in the form of...
2018-07-16
ANCOM proposal: fixed telephone numbers should be kept when moving to another county
ANCOM proposes in a draft decision launched for public consultation that geographical fixed telephone numbers could also be used outside the geographical area in which they were allocated. “In order to fully reap the benefits of new technologies, telephony providers...
2018-07-16
GSR-18, prezidat de Sorin Grindeanu, adopta Recomandarile privind bunele practici referitoare la noile frontiere in reglementare
More than 600 participants from over 120 countries, including government ministers, regulators, representatives from the private sector and academic institutions, met from 9 to12 July in Geneva, Switzerland, to attend ITU’s 2018 Global Symposium for Regulators (GSR-18). GSR, the world’s...
2018-07-11
When can operators refuse a porting request
“Given that the users are complaining that the Authority refuses their porting requests, I would like to point out that ANCOM is solely responsible for the management of the IT system that supports the porting processes. Only telephony operators involved...
2018-07-09
Sorin Grindeanu chairs the Global Symposium for Regulators
President Sorin Grindeanu chairs this year’s Global Symposium for Regulators (GSR-2018), the world’s eminent gathering of the global ICT regulatory community. The event is organized by the International Telecommunication Union ITU. Under the theme “New Regulatory Frontiers”, in Geneva, Switzerland,...
2018-07-02
ANCOM approved RCS&RDS’ request on EEA roaming services
For the second year in a row, ANCOM approved RCS&RDS’ request to levy their customers certain surcharges, in addition to the domestic tariffs, for the roaming services provided in the European Union, as well as in Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein...
2018-06-28
Warning: Mobile data and telephony offers may lack roaming!
”Lately, ANCOM has been receiving user complaints about the lack of roaming services in the contracted tariff plans. It is the holiday period and it is important for those who spend their holidays abroad to check whether they have access...
2018-06-27
Security incidents affected mostly mobile internet and telephony
"According to the electronic communications services providers’ reports, the number of security incidents that occurred in 2017 increased by 20% compared to 2016, but the average number of connections affected by each incident significantly decreased, by almost 38%. Similarly to...
2018-06-20
Preparing the 5G landscape: BEREC holds a debriefing on important documents for the European Electronic Communications Market
Today, BEREC Chair Johannes Gungl presented the outcomes of the 35th Plenary Meetings to the public. This Public Debriefing by the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications was held in Brussels, Belgium. Gungl put emphasise on the important work...
2018-06-19
Netograf.ro: The average download speed for the fixed internet reached 112.1 Mbps in 2017
Statistics on the quality of fixed and mobile internet service in Romania, updated based on the tests performed on Netograf.ro – ANCOM’s online tool for testing internet service quality – show that, in 2017, Romanians benefited from average download speeds...
2018-06-15
A year of Roam like at home
15 June 2018 – ”Roam like at home” has been in force for a year now, and the Romanians have fully benefitted from this EU Regulation. In 2017, the roaming traffic soared: the traffic of calls made tripled (from 0.5...
2018-06-14
Invitation to the BEREC public debriefing of the 35th plenary meetings
On 20 June 2018, in Brussels, BEREC will hold a public debriefing to give an overview of the outcomes of the 35th plenary meetings of 13 – 15 June in Gdańsk-Sopot, Poland. The BEREC Chair Johannes Gungl will present three...
2018-06-07
Collaboration protocol between the Competition Council and ANCOM
5 August 2009 – The president of the Competition Council, Bogdan Chiriţoiu, and the president of the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM), Cătălin Marinescu, have signed a new collaboration protocol in view of fostering and promoting...