Press Releases
2006-02-01
2,000,000 Numbers Allotted to Mobile Telephone Services
ANRC allotted new numbering resources to Orange Romania, Mobifon, Digicom Systems and Acord Telecom. Orange Romania was granted the right to use one more million numbers for the provision of mobile telephone services. So far, this company has been granted...
2006-01-18
ANRC Strategic Objectives for 2006 under Public Consultation
In compliance with the principle of fostering a transparent and predictable regulatory framework, the National Regulatory Authority for Communications (ANRC) released today the 2006 Action Plan for consultation with the public and the profile industry. This year, the Authority is...
2006-01-11
ANRC Proposes a New Calculation Procedure for the Monitoring Tariffand the Universal Service Contribution
On Tuesday, ANRC launched for consultation the draft decision setting out the rules and procedures for the calculation of the monitoring tariff owed to ANRC and of the contribution to Universal Service, as well as the choice of the providers...
2005-12-28
ANRC Launches Consultation on the Implementation of Number Portability
The Romanian users will be able to keep their telephone number despite shifts to other operators. This new service is called number portability and will be available in Romania from the beginning of 2007. ANRC is launching today, for...
2005-12-21
ANRC Launches a Tender for the Installation of 70 More Telecentres
Yesterday, at the ANRC headquarters, the 5 companies winning the first tender for the implementation of Universal Service organised in 2005, together with the mayors of several beneficiary localities and the ANRC President, concluded the agreements for the installation...
2005-12-21
The Number of Postal Items Exceeded 500 Million in 2004
On Wednesday, December 21st, 2005, the National Regulatory Authority for Communications released the first Report on the statistical data regarding the market of postal services in 2004, elaborated based on the information transmitted by 134 postal service providers. The conclusions...
2005-12-21
The National Regulatory Authority for Communications Releases the 2005 Annual Report
“ANRC was established to create a competitive communications market and to promote the sector development, as well as the end-users’ interest and investments. In 2005, all our efforts have been committed to the achievement of these objectives, by which ANRC...
2005-12-08
The Interconnection Tariffs of Romtelecom Will Be Reducedas of the 1st of January 2006
The Court of Appeal of Bucharest rejected yesterday Romtelecom’s request to suspend, for the duration of the trial, the decision of the National Regulatory Authority for Communications which obliges the operator to decrease its interconnection rates. In October 2005,...
2005-12-07
ANRC Designated 5 Companies to Install Telecentres in 33 Villages
ANRC designated the companies that will install telecentres in 33 villages currently having a low degree of access to telephony services. These 33 telecentres will provide acces for approximately 41,000 people living in the rural area. S.C. Euroweb Romania S.A.,...
2005-12-07
The Decrease of Interconnection Tariffs Does Not Affect Romtelecom Investments
Today, December the 7th, 2005, the President of the National Regulatory Authority for Communications, Dan Cristian Georgescu, presented the main regulatory endeavours of ANRC in 2005, as well as some of the Authority’s priorities for the next year, during the...
2005-11-30
ANRC Allotted New Numbering Resources
ANRC allotted new numbering resources to RCS & RDS S.A. and Dial Telecom S.R.L. and amended the licences granted to A & G Communication Grup S.R.L. and Telestar Corporation GmbH S.R.L., following their requests for giving up the right to...
2005-11-22
Successful eGovernment is in Direct Proportion to the Number of Romanians Deploying Internet Connections
“A salient condition for access to eGovernment services is a computer connected to the Internet. Therefore, one of ANRC’s strategic priorities is stimulating the growth of Internet connections, so that the Romanian citizens could interact with the administration on-line”, the...
2005-11-18
2,000,000 New Numbers for Mobile Telephone Services
The National Regulatory Authority for Communications (ANRC) extended the numbering resources granted to S.C. Orange Romania S.A., S.C. Telemobil S.A. and S.C. Cosmote Romanian Mobile Telecommunications S.A. (formerly named S.C. Cosmorom S.A.) Thus, following the request submitted to ANRC by...
2005-11-17
ANRC Will Defend Competition on the Romanian Fixed Telephony Market in Court
Upon receiving the mass-media representatives’ requests for further information on certain issues on the regulation of the Romtelecom interconnection tariffs, ANRC makes the following clarifications: Interconnection tariffs are the key to competition. Therefore, ANRC shall not jeopardize competition and the...
2005-11-16
All Romanians Living in Rural Areas Will Have Access to Communications Services
Today, the 16th of November, 2005, during a press conference with international participation held in Tunis, on the occasion of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the President of the National Regulatory Authority for Communications of Romania (ANRC),...
2005-11-15
CATV Subscribers – Potential Users of Broadband Internet Services
“In June 2005, there were more than 522,000 connections for access to broadband Internet services; approximately 160,000 of these were provided by means of coaxial cable, which is the widest used support for high-speed Internet through dedicated connections. These figures...
2005-11-04
Dialogue of the ANRC Caravan with the Industry in Iasi
On Thursday, November 3, 2005, during the fourth meeting of the ANRC Caravan held in Iasi, the President of the National Regulatory Authority for Communications, Mr. Dan Cristian Georgescu, and the ANRC Vice-president, Ms. Alexandrina Hirtan, met the representatives of...
2005-11-03
In Romania, the Number of Mobile Calls Increased by 45% in theFirst Half of 2005 as Compared to the Same Period of 2004
The number of mobile telephony users in Romania reached 11.37 million in June 2005, increasing by more than 10% (1.16 million) as compared to end-2004, according to the final report on the electronic communications sector for the period January 1st...
2005-11-02
New Law Regulating the Regime of Electronic Communications Networks
The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) and the National Regulatory Authority for Communications (ANRC) have launched for consultation a draft law regulating the rights of way for the providers of electronic communications networks, the shared use of the...
2005-10-28
ANRC Reduces the Interconnection Tariffs of Romtelecom
On Thursday, October 27, 2005, ANRC imposed Romtelecom the obligation to reduce its interconnection tariffs, based on a two-step adjustment schedule, January 1, 2006 and January 1, 2007. By the end of this transition period, the interconnection tariffs will have...