Press Releases

2018-02-05

Contractual relations - the main source of discontent for the electronic communications services users in 2017

In 2017, the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) received and solved 3,593 complaints from the users of electronic communications and postal services in Romania, up by almost 25% compared to 2016. "Most of the complaints addressed...

2018-01-22

ANCOM proposes lower number portability tariffs between operators

ANCOM has launched for public consultation the proposal to lower the tariffs that the acceptor supplier owes to the donor provider for each ported number. "Taking into account the significant volume of numbers ported on a national level in recent...

2018-01-18

ANCOM identified rural areas not covered by Next Generation Networks that could benefit from MCIS’ public intervention measures

ANCOM has published the list of rural localities in Romania yet to be covered by fixed networks enabling 30 Mbps or higher speeds. So far, these localities have not been subject to coverage gap closing public intervention measures in this...

2017-12-22

ANCOM launches mobile termination rates for public consultation

“We propose lowering mobile termination rates starting 1 May 2018, from 0.96 eurocents/minute to 0.84 eurocents/minute. These rates are to be applied until ANCOM completes the new pure LRIC costing model. The Authority’s decision comes as a result of the...

2017-12-20

ANCOM actualizează o serie de reglementări în domeniul comunicațiilor electronice

In a Consultative Council meeting, the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) agreed on reviewing the obligations regarding the quality indicators for the Internet access service, on setting up a Single Information Point concerning the infrastructure owned...

2017-12-20

Roam like at home – from 1 January 2018, higher volume caps for surcharge-free data consumption while roaming in the EU/SEE

Starting from 1 January 2018, following the decrease in the regulated wholesale tariff, the data volume (MB/GB) that can be consumed while roaming in the EU/SEE[1] without having to pay any surcharges will increase for most of the tariff plans....

2017-12-18

White areas in the mobile communications licences issued in 2012, now covered

“We have recently verified how operators fulfilled their mobile coverage obligations in the white areas provided in the licences issued in 2012, which had been identified as still not covered in the 2016 monitoring campaign. Following the latest campaign, we...

2017-12-14

New regulations in the universal postal service field

The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications of Romania (ANCOM) adopted, in the Consultative Council, three decisions regarding the provision of services within the scope of universal postal service. The amendments were mainly aimed at transposing into the...

2017-12-14

BEREC presents one year of enforcing Net Neutrality across Europe and moves forward on monitoring business markets

The public debriefing of 13 December 2017 in Brussels was the occasion for the BEREC Chair 2017 to come back on the work done by BEREC in 2017 that was marked by important work on Net neutrality, mobile and roaming...

2017-12-12

ANCOM’S 2018 Action Plan in public consultation

The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications of Romania (ANCOM) has launched a public consultation on its draft action plan for 2018. “Next year’s milestones will be the implementation of the infrastructure law and the preparations for awarding...

2017-12-07

Details regarding the payment of annual monitoring tariff

The annual monitoring tariff is owed to ANCOM by all the providers of electronic communications networks and services and of postal services that obtain turnover or revenues exclusively from such activities which exceed the equivalent in RON of EUR 100,000,...

2017-11-29

First step to setting maximum tariffs for access on public property

ANCOM launches a public consultation regarding the establishment of homogeneous categories of access on public property with a view to setting maximum tariffs. These homogeneous categories are established according to various criteria, such as the geographic or demographic features, or...

2017-11-29

7.3 million subscribers to TV retransmission services in Romania

At mid-2017, around 98% of the households in Romania benefitted from pay TV programme retransmission services, accounting for more than 7.3 million subscribers, up 2.5% year-on-year. Most of these– 4.9 million – are cable subscribers, 2.4 million are satellite network...

2017-11-28

Mobile telephony users keep switching from prepaid cards to subscriptions

In the first half of 2017, the growing trend in the number of subscriptions to mobile telephony services continued, at the expense of active prepaid cards. Such a trend has been noticed ever since 2016 and can be explained by...

2017-11-23

Mobile internet traffic doubled in the first half of 2017, year-on-year

According to ANCOM’s latest statistical data report on the Romanian electronic communications market, mobile Internet traffic doubled in the first half of this year, compared to the first half of 2016, from 71 thousand TB to 145 thousand TB. “As...

2017-11-16

How to choose the best Black Friday offers for telephony, internet or television

Telephony, internet or television providers launch a wide range of promotional offers on Black Friday, so it is important that the users should look for thorough information before choosing such an offer. The National Authority for Management and Regulation in...

2017-11-08

Sorin Grindeanu appointed President of ANCOM

On November 7, 2017, Sorin Grindeanu was appointed President of the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM), for the remaining period of the six-year mandate commenced on 11 May 2017, by Parliament Decision no. 93 of 7...

2017-11-03

ANCOM to update the format of information on the roll-out and geographical location of public electronic communications networks

On 3 November 2017, The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications of Romania (ANCOM) launched for public consultation a draft decision establishing the format and means of sending information on the roll-out and geographical location of public electronic...

2017-11-02

Public consultation for updating the list of localities in ”white areas”

ANCOM launches for public consultation a list of 4,117 localities (with 525,297 households and a total population of 1,422,865 inhabitants), in order to update the situation of the localities in Romania that are not yet covered by high speed broadband...

2017-11-01

ANCOM fines Telekom Mobile for failure or delays in porting telephone numbers

The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications of Romania (ANCOM) sanctioned Telekom Romania Mobile Communications by fine amounting to RON 200,000 for failure to port 1,232 telephone numbers and delays in porting further 4,941 telephone numbers. The porting...