Press Releases
2018-04-27
President Sorin Grindeanu will chair this year’s Global Symposium for Regulators
ANCOM’s President, Sorin Grindeanu, has been appointed Chair of this year’s Global Symposium for Regulators (GSR-18), world’s pre-eminent global ICT regulatory event. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has appointed the ANCOM President as Chair of GSR-18, this being the first...
2018-04-19
Operators will charge lower fees for porting telephone numbers
At the Consultative Council meeting on 19 April 2018, ANCOM together with the industry debated and adopted the decision on reducing the number porting fees charged by telephony operators. “As the amount of ported numbers has increased significantly, ANCOM deemed...
2018-04-03
ANCOM: The users’ rights when accepting providers’ offers by e-mail, telephone or online
When a user purchases telephony, internet or television services via telephone, e-mail or by an online application, the provider must make available a set of minimum information items enabling the user to make a decision that is best suited to...
2018-03-22
Fines for the operators’ failure to observe Roam like at home regulations
”Following a series of complaints received from the users, ANCOM investigated how operators apply the European Roam like at home regulation in Romania. The control actions revealed deficiencies in this regard, therefore the Authority required the providers of electronic communications...
2018-03-20
ANCOM conducted approximately 4,700 control actions in the electronic communications and postal services market
”From the beginning of 2017, for ensuring the smooth functioning of the sector and the electronic communications and postal services providers’ compliance with the law in Romania, ANCOM has conducted almost 4,700 control actions, sending 225 notifications and applying 721...
2018-03-15
The average Internet download speed increased during 2017, according to Netograf.ro
“In the second half of 2017, Internet users in Romania experienced higher average download speeds, i.e. 115 Mbps for fixed internet and 20 Mbps for mobile Internet, according to the statistics on the fixed and mobile Internet service quality in...
2018-03-14
ERGP key priorities 2018
2018 will be an important year in European postal regulation. The European Regulators Group for Postal Services (ERGP) is set to perform major work in contributing to a modernization of the European postal regulatory framework and its consistent implementation...
2018-03-14
BEREC : 5G, International Roaming and Net Neutrality
Today a public debriefing was held by the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) in Brussels, Belgium. BEREC Chair 2018, Johannes Gungl, presented the outcomes of the 34th BEREC Plenary Meetings. In his introduction he highlighted the focus...
2018-03-13
Public consultation on the allotment of radio spectrum for terrestrial digital broadcasting services in Romania
ANCOM has launched a public consultation to assess the market interest in acquiring rights of use for the available spectrum in the VHF and UHF band for terrestrial digital broadcasting services. The views expressed during this consultation will serve in...
2018-03-07
The operators’ contracts for access to public or private property shall be sent to ANCOM
“We have taken another important step in the implementation of Infrastructure Law, one of the Authority’s major multiannual projects, imposing on the electronic communications network providers a transparency obligation as regards the conditions – including tariff-related – agreed for access...
2018-03-07
Invitation to the BEREC public debriefing of the 34th plenary meetings
On 14 March 2018, in Brussels, BEREC will hold a public debriefing to give an overview of the outcomes of the 34th plenary meetings of 7-9 March 2018 in Bratislava, Slovak Republic. The BEREC Chair Johannes Gungl (RTR) will present...
2018-03-06
Lower rates between mobile operators, starting 1 May 2018
ANCOM has debated and agreed with the electronic communications industry to reduce mobile termination rates by 12.5%, from 0.96 eurocents/minute to 0.84 eurocents/minute starting 1 May 2018. This is a transitory measure, up to the completion of a new...
2018-03-06
ANCOM investigates the incident that affected Telekom network
The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications requested and received from Telekom Romania Mobile Communications a notification on the incident with significant impact that affected the operator’s network yesterday. Additional information and documents are to be sent for...
2018-02-21
34% of the Romanians have heard of 5G, and 22% are aware of IoT
According to an ANCOM market survey, 34% of the Romanians have heard of 5G, and 22% of the Internet of Things (IoT). 4% of the population hold intelligent personal devices or home appliances that can be interconnected, as the survey...
2018-02-15
Number portability in 2017 – almost 900,000 numbers ported in one year
892,695 telephone numbers have been ported during 2017, of which 94% (839,679) are mobile and 53,016 are fixed telephony numbers. ”The number of users enjoying the benefits of number portability has increased significantly in recent years, with more than 4.5...
2018-02-12
ANCOM adopted its 2018 Action Plan
ANCOM and the industry debated and adopted the institution’s 2018 Action Plan during the Consultative Council meeting of 7 February 2018. ”Implementing the infrastructure law, adopting a national strategy for the achievement of the broadband access targets of the Digital...
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...