Press Releases
2021-06-04
Can an operator reject a porting request?
The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) highlights that providers cannot reject a user’s request for porting their telephone number, with a few exceptions that are clearly provided by law: the porting request filed by the user...
2021-06-02
Fixed internet traffic increased by more than 50% in 2020
”The statistical data on the electronic communications market in 2020 are often surprising. They reveal reversed trends, unusual dynamics, changes in long-term rankings. Moreover, according to forecasts made at the beginning of the pandemic, the demand for fixed internet reached...
2021-05-27
Tulcea debate on the coverage of communications services in the Danube Delta
ANCOM, with the support of the County Council of Tulcea, organised a conference in Tulcea for informing the public on the availability of mobile voice and internet services and on the involuntary roaming risk in the Danube Delta area. The...
2021-05-17
ANCOM EMF measurements results, fully available on www.monitor-emf.ro
ANCOM has launched a new version of the www.monitor-emf.ro platform, where all those interested can view the results of the measurements on the electromagnetic field level generated by the antennas used in the frequency bands up to 7 GHz (radio-TV,...
2021-05-14
Decisions on frequency spectrum management, under public consultation
ANCOM has launched for public consultation three draft decisions regarding the procedure for awarding frequency usage rights, licence-exempt frequencies or frequency bands, and setting the spectrum usage tariff. Procedure for awarding frequency usage rights The Draft decision for amending and...
2021-05-13
ANCOM Survey: 65% of the respondents used postal services in the past 12 months, with an overall satisfaction score of 8.2
”According to a survey conducted by ANCOM, 65% of the respondents used postal services in the past 12 months, with an 8.2 out of 10 overall satisfaction score. Moreover, 71% of the postal service users performed online transactions in the...
2021-04-28
Lower fixed and mobile call termination rates in Romania
Starting with 1 July 2021, the fixed and mobile telephony operators on the Romanian market will reduce the call termination rates in their individual networks due to the setting of a single maximum Union-wide mobile voice termination rate and a...
2021-03-08
ANCOM: security incidents caused by power outage have grown in Romania over the past two years
“Most communications networks in Romania are modern, high-performance and highly resilient taking into account a wide range of risks, including cyber-attacks. Among these, their ’capacity’ as electricity consumers proves to be a major system vulnerability. The data communicated by operators...
2021-02-24
ANCOM Survey: Citizens’ perceptions regarding EMF and 5G
”In the digital age, providing accurate and complete information to the citizens is of special importance and requires awareness of the existing perceptions. Amidst the growing interest in the new technologies and electromagnetic (EMF) radiation, we have conducted a survey...
2021-02-23
2018 Universal Postal Service Net Cost Meets Compensation Conditions
During an online session of the Consultative Council, ANCOM adopted the decision on compensating the net cost of CNPR’s providing postal services under the universal service obligation in 2018, by RON 6,285,244. According to the Authority’s assessment, the provision of...
2021-02-23
Fixed ultra-fast broadband network coverage – what is the actual state of play?
Having processed the data collected from providers of fixed public electronic communications networks regarding the localities in Romania where the end users may lack access to a fixed public ultra-fast broadband electronic communications network (i.e. download speed ≥100 Mbps), ANCOM...
2021-02-09
ANCOM conducted approximately 3,500 control actions in the markets of electronic communications, postal services and radio equipment in 2020
”The monitoring and control activity in the fields of electronic communications, postal services, radio equipment and electromagnetic compatibility was even more thorough in 2020, as this period featured unusual challenges and extreme circumstances. Last year, we carried out 3,481 control...
2021-02-04
ANCOM adopted its Action Plan for 2021
According to the adopted Action Plan, the main priorities of ANCOM in 2021 are as follows: transpose the provisions of the European Electronic Communications Code into the secondary legislation, hold the spectrum auction for awarding usage rights in the bands...
2021-01-29
Conditions for concluding a telephony, internet or TV services contract after a sales call
ANCOM: Users can conclude a telephone, internet or television contract away from the service provider’s premises, as well. In most cases, such distance contracts are initiated by a telephone call received from the provider. In the current health crisis context,...
2021-01-20
Number portability in 2020: more than 945,000 ported numbers
945,186 telephone numbers were ported in 2020, of which 92% (873,519) mobile telephony numbers and 71,667 fixed telephony numbers. The monthly average amount of ported numbers in 2020 was lower than in the previous year, down from 79,902 in 2019...
2021-01-18
ANCOM issues Applicant's Guidebook on Approving the Conditions for Access to Underground Ducts for the Installation of Communications Networks
”Based on the experience of the projects implemented in Bucharest, Oradea, Sibiu or Timisoara, we have issued this guidebook to support public administration authorities – especially local authorities – in the efficient application of the Infrastructure Law, for the benefit...
2021-01-14
All operators have improved their mobile voice signal coverage in 2020
“A new campaign for verifying mobile voice signal coverage has been completed, and we are glad to find that the coverage with mobile telephony services at the population level is significantly higher. Despite the difficult context that marked the past...
2021-01-04
Online application
“Online application for comparing the communications offers intended for the end-users” Sector Operational Programme "Increase of Economic Competitiveness" – co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund – “Investments for your future” NULL All operators have improved their mobile voice signal...
2021-01-04
Roam like at home: higher data allowances in EU/EEA roaming, without surcharges, from 1 January 2021
Starting from 1 January 2021, following the decrease in the regulated wholesale tariff, the data volume (MB/GB) that can be consumed while roaming in the EU/SEE without incurring any surcharges has increased by almost 17% on average, for most of...
2020-12-15
European Commission gives green light to ANCOM: wholesale markets for services of broadband internet access provided at a fixed location need no regulatory intervention
The European Commission has raised no objections following the European Consultation process, therefore ANCOM has adopted its Position on reviewing the relevant markets corresponding to the services of local access provided at a fixed location and of central access provided...