Press Releases
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...
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...