Press Releases
2017-10-12
Wednesday, 11 October 2017 – Eduard Lucian Lovin and Bogdan Cristian Iana were appointed Vice Presidents of the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications of Romania (ANCOM), by the Romanian Parliament Decision no. 79, published in the Romanian...
2017-10-11
BEREC moves forward on future monitoring of mobile and net neutrality issues and publishes a statement on NRAs competencies
During the last plenary meetings, BEREC decided to launch several public consultations on: a report analysing the impact of content and devices on the telecoms market, a preliminary report on monitoring of mobile coverage in view of a Common position...
2017-10-09
ANCOM adopted decisions regulating fixed and mobile call termination markets
In the Consultative Council of 9 October 2017, ANCOM – together with the industry – debated and adopted a set of measures on identifying, analysing and regulating the markets for the services of call termination provided at fixed locations, respectively...
2017-10-06
ANCOM proposes withdrawing Radiocom's obligations on the market for analogue terrestrial broadcasting services
The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications of Romania (ANCOM) has launched for public consultation a draft decision on the identification of relevant markets for the services of analogue terrestrial broadcasting of public television and radio programme services....
2017-10-04
15 years of independent regulation of the Romanian communications market
The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications of Romania (ANCOM) organized a new edition of its international conference entitled “Regulation 360⁰ – from word to terabyte, in 15 years” to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the country’s electronic...
2017-10-03
Invitation to the BEREC public debriefing of the 32nd plenary meetings
On 11 October 2017, in Brussels, BEREC will hold a public debriefing to present the recent BEREC work and the outcomes of the 32nd plenary meetings of 5-6 October in Bucharest, Romania. The BEREC Chair Sébastien Soriano and BEREC Incoming...
2017-10-03
Monitoring and Control
The monitoring and control activity of ANCOM is conducted for the purpose of ensuring the enforcement and observance of the provisions under the legislation and regulations imposed by the Authority in order to promote competition in the markets of electronic...
2017-10-03
New examination sessions for certificates of radio amateur and radio operator in the land mobile service
During 11-28 October 2017, the Romanian National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM), through its regional divisions of Bucharest, Cluj, Iasi and Timis, is organising examination sessions for those who wish to be certified as radio amateurs and,...
2017-09-28
ANCOM’s President discussed with the Director General of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), Bishar A. Hussein
ANCOM’s President Adrian Diță welcomed, at the Authority’s headquarters in Bucharest, Mr. Bishar Abdirahman Hussein, Director General of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), the postal sector’s primary forum for global cooperation in the United Nations (UN) system. The discussion topics...
2017-09-22
ANCOM consults the industry on third parties’ access to the number portability database
The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) has launched a public consultation on granting third parties’ access to certain information in the centralized database (CDB) used to ensure the number portability service. The CDB, administrated by ANCOM,...
2017-09-22
Manufacturers of equipment for communications networks get involved in the implementation of "Ro-Alert"
The working group for the development and implementation of Ro-Alert met again at the headquarters of the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) for a series of working sessions. Starting from this meeting, the working group includes...
2017-09-21
ANCOM is consulting further on access to the public postal network
The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications of Romania (ANCOM) submits to public consultation the methodology for identifying the points where granting access to the public postal network operated by The National Postal Company (CNPR) is feasible and...
2017-09-21
Public consultation on amateur radio for emergency situations
Today, 21 September 2017, ANCOM has launched a public consultation on amateur radio for emergency situations, aimed at collecting the views of all interested parties with respect to the necessary regulations and procedure for managing the radio spectrum required for...
2017-09-18
”Sistem Alert” de avertizare în cazuri de urgenţă
2017-09-13
ANCOM published the industry’s answers on spectrum use in run-up to 5G
ANCOM published, on its website, a summary of the answers received in the public consultation on awarding the spectrum use rights in the frequency bands 694-790 MHz, 791-796 MHz/832-837 MHz, 1452-1492 MHz, 2530-2570 MHz/2650-2690 MHz, 3410-3420 MHz/3510-3520 MHz, and 3450-3465...
2017-09-08
On 18 October in Brussels, BEREC is organising its 5th Stakeholder Forum. This year’s edition will be devoted to many new challenges regulators face in a fast – changing environment. Investment in very high capacity networks being key in this...
2017-09-07
Network locked phone? How to remove the network lock
The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications of Romania (ANCOM) makes aware the users that they can request their provider to unlock their network locked handsets, at the moment of purchase or any time after that, based on...
2017-09-05
ANCOM Warning: Look for the CE Marking on Cordless Fixed Telephone Sets!
ANCOM continues the information campaign on holding, putting into service and using DECT 6.0 cordless fixed telephones without the CE (European Conformity) marking. Equipment without the CE marking, which typically comes from outside the European Union and does not comply...
2017-09-01
ANCOM to update a series of regulations within the scope of universal postal service
The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) has launched for public consultation three draft decisions aimed at updating the secondary legislation on the provision of services within the field of universal postal service, in line with the...
2017-08-30
Users calling 09xx xxx xxx numbers incur additional charges
The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications of Romania (ANCOM) brings to the user’s attention that higher, premium rates are charged for calls to 09xx xxx xxx numbers. These numbers offers value-added content services – such as entertainment,...