Press Releases
2016-07-08
ANCOM consultation on the documentation for a new DTT auction
On 8 July 2016, the Romanian Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) has launched for public consultation the draft decision and the draft Terms of Reference with a view to organizing an auction for awarding the two national...
2016-07-07
Roundtable on the draft of the new telecom law
During January – February 2011, ANCOM organised several roundtables with representatives of the electronic communications industry to discuss the draft law on the electronic communications. The meetings aimed at clarifying the ambiguous aspects, as well as thoroughly and accurately analysing...
2016-07-07
New rules on equipment sale
During its meeting of 6 July, the Government of Romania adopted the Government Decision transposing the new European provisions on electromagnetic compatibility into the Romanian legislation. This Decision establishes new rules regarding the obligations of economic operators active in the...
2016-06-30
The Romanian National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) is warning mobile internet and telephony users whose roaming service is activated while they are close to the border, although in the country, that their telephone or tablet may...
2016-06-29
Veritel.ro - mobile internet consumption doubled in Romania last year
The Romanian Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) updated on Veritel.ro – the online application for comparing telecom offers – the consumption values configuring the profile of an occasional, average and intensive mobile telephony and mobile internet user,...
2016-06-28
19 million broadband connections in Romania
“The democratisation of internet access has become a reality in Romania. The 4G upsurge and omnipresent 3G mobile coverage, hyper-speeds in the fixed networks, as well as the launch of ever more competitive offers, attracted 19 million connections capable of...
2016-06-21
Incidents affected 30% less connections in 2015
According to the Report on incidents that affected the security and resilience of electronic communications networks and services published by ANCOM, 281 incidents with significant impact affected the security and resilience of electronic communications networks and services in 2015, approximately...
2016-06-16
Electronic equipment without CE marking affects mobile communications (telephony, internet) services!
“In the recent years, ANCOM detected and settled numerous cases of harmful interference that affected the smooth operation of electronic communications services, especially of mobile communications ones. After missions of monitoring and control of the radio spectrum, the Authority’s technical...
2016-06-09
The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications of Romania (ANCOM) advises postal service users that send valuable goods on the territory of Romania (telephones, photo cameras, etc.) to choose an insured items service, despite the relatively higher costs....
2016-06-09
Peste 3.000.000 de numere portate în România
In the first five months of 2016, more than 370,000 numbers have been ported, which means that the total amount of ported numbers since the launch of number portability in Romania, until the 7th of June, exceeded 3 million numbers....
2016-06-06
BEREC seeks views on guidelines to implement new net neutrality rules
The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) has today published for public consultation draft guidelines on the implementation by regulators of new net neutrality rules and is seeking the views of stakeholders over the next six weeks, with...
2016-06-06
Events
ANCOM organises and participates in national events, reunions and working groups in the communications field.These events are intended to ensure a high level of transparency as to the ANCOM activity and decisions in the field of electronic communications and postal...
2016-05-19
Watch out for SMS to short Premium rate numbers
Upon sending an SMS/MMS to short numbers of 3-5 digits, mobile telephony users request or subscribe to value-added (Premium rate) content services, such as games, horoscope or certain applications for which they are usually charged additional costs. In order to...
2016-05-19
More than 7 million subscribers to audio-visual programme retransmission services in Romania
By the end of 2015, there were more than 7 million subscribers to paid audio-visual programme retransmission services, 4% more than in the previous year. Among these, almost 4.6 million subscribe to cable networks, 2.4 million subscribe to satellite networks...
2016-05-18
ANCOM proposes the strategic vision for digital communications up to 2020
”If somebody had expressed a wish in 2007, Romania’s EU accession year, for our country to have the best fixed networks in Europe within a few years, he/she may have been considered a dreamer. Now, we have the best fixed...
2016-05-16
4G Connections Continue Upsurge
“Almost 3 times and a half grew 4G connections in Romania in one year, from less than 800,000 in 2014, to 2.7 million in 2015. This confirms the Romanian users’ interest for high performance terminals, mobility and speed, as well...
2016-05-12
ANCOM proposes changing the destination of numbering resources
The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) has launched for public consultation a draft decision on changing the destination of short codes in subdomains 7t (7tvx(y) format), used for the provision of micro-payment services. Thus, ANCOM’s draft...
2016-05-12
From 2015, more than half of the fixed internet connections in Romania enable speeds above 100Mbps
At end-2015, the internet users in Romania had more than 300 thousand fixed broadband internet connections compared to end-2014, mainly ultra-fast broadband connections. More than half of the 4.3 million fixed broadband connections in Romania enable speeds above 100Mbps, according...
2016-05-05
Financial sources
In accordance with the provisions of Article 14(1) of the Government Emergency Ordinance no. 22/2009 on the establishment of the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications, approved by Law no. 113/2010, with the subsequent amendments and completions, ANCOM’s...
2016-05-05
Can a subscription-based number be ported onto a prepaid card?
The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) points out that mobile telephony users have the right to port their telephone numbers from one network to another, even when the porting involves switching from a subscription (in the...