Press Releases

2012-11-22

The ANCOM President - Elected Vice-Chair of ERGP for 2013

During the third plenary of the European Regulators Group for Postal Services (ERGP), hosted today by the Swedish regulatory authority, the ERGP board for the year 2013 has been elected. The board consists of two vice-chairs – to be represented...

2012-11-06

10 Years of Regulation of the Electronic Communications Market

Today, in the international conference “Back to the Future: Romanian Communications Market in the Next 10 Years”,the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) has presented the main effects of the regulatory activity on the development of the...

2012-10-26

ANCOM Opens the 900 and 1800 MHz Bands for the Newest Communications Technologies

ANCOM has published for public consultation a draft decision aimed at allowing the use of the 900 and 1800 MHz bands for 4th generation communications services (4G) as well, in order to impel the provision of multimedia mobile communications and...

2012-10-23

ANCOM Issued the Guide regarding the Conclusion and the Mandatory Clauses of a Contract between Electronic Communications Service Providers and End-Users

The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) has completed and makes available to the providers the Guide regarding the conclusion and the mandatory clauses of the contracts for the provision of publicly available electronic communications services. The...

2012-10-19

In 2011, the Postal Market Registered the First Increases after Three Consecutive Years of Decline

The statistical data report on postal services, published today by ANCOM, shows that, after three years of decline, the market grew by 28% in terms of total postal traffic. The providers reported increases as regards both domestic traffic (29%) and...

2012-10-19

10 ani de reglementare a pieţei comunicaţiilor electronice şi serviciilor poştale din România

Autoritatea Naţională pentru Administrare şi Reglementare în Comunicaţii (ANCOM) organizează conferinţa internaţională „Înapoi la viitor: următorii 10 ani în piaţa de comunicaţii”, eveniment strâns legat de împlinirea, în acest an, a 10 de ani de reglementare a comunicaţiilor electronice şi...

2012-10-18

ANCOM Sanctions the Operators that Do Not Label the Postal Items

ANCOM applied four fines amounting to RON 30,000 to the postal operators which had not observed the obligation to adequately label the postal items. ANCOM therefore sanctioned Romanian Post National Company (CNPR) and Posta Atlassib Curier Rapid, from Sibiu county,...

2012-10-18

Patru ani de portabilitate în România

Four years after the introduction of number portability in Romania, the amount of ported numbers reached 873,213. This amount has risen every year: 30% of the amount of ported numbers so far was achieved in 2011, 25% in 2010 and...

2012-10-16

Construction Works and Cable Thefts - Main Causes of Electronic Communications Service Interruptions

The deterioration of the fibre optic because of constructions, infrastructure and utilities works and the theft of cables are the main causes which affected the provision of the electronic communications services for at least one hour during last year. Other...

2012-10-15

ANCOM Applied the Third Fine to Direct Post and Suspended Temporarily the Right of This Company to Provide Postal Services

ANCOM applied a RON 40,000 fine to S.C. DIRECT POST SERVICES S.R.L.for the provision of correspondence items weighing up to 50 g at a tariff lower than RON 2 per item. The company thus breached the reserved right of the...

2012-09-26

Removal of CNPR Reserved Right, Final Step to Market Liberalisation

ANCOM is making the final step towards the full liberalisation of the postal market by means of two draft decisions, submitted to public consultation today, which aim at extending with one year the capacity as a universal service provider of...

2012-09-25

Electronic Communications and Postal Services Operators Will Pay No Monitoring Tariff for 2012

The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) will charge the providers no monitoring tariff for the year 2012. An authorised provider of public electronic communications networks, of publicly available electronic communications services or of postal services, with...

2012-09-24

Spectrum Auction Successfully Concluded

Following the spectrum auction held by ANCOM, 5 operators have won 485 MHz in the 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 2600 MHz bands, the radio frequencies suitable for broadband voice mobile communications and Internet. The amount of spectrum...

2012-09-20

ANCOM Proposes to Extend until 19 February 2013 the Usage Term of 1951 and 1958 Numbers for the Current Services

The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) has published today for public consultation a draft decision on extending until 19 February 2013 the usage term in the case of the 1951 and 1958 national short numbers (19vx...

2012-09-17

Assignment Rounds within Spectrum Auction Start on Friday

The last additional round of the spectrum auction for allocating the frequencies in the 800, 900, 1800 and 2600 MHz bands has been held today. After this round, the generic blocks won by each bidder and the amounts they must...

2012-09-14

Second Additional Bid Round in the spectrum auction on Monday, 17 September

At the end of the first additional round of the spectrum auction held for allocating the frequencies in the 800, 900, 1800 and 2600 MHz bands, the Commission announces that a new additional round is scheduled to take place on...

2012-09-11

Spectrum Auction Continues with Additional Rounds

After the primary bid held today, on the second day of the spectrum auction, the Commission announces that demand no longer exceeds the offer in any of the available bands. The primary rounds phase ends thus, after 3 bidding rounds....

2012-09-10

Further Primary Rounds Are Needed after the First Day of Spectrum Auction

On the first day of spectrum auction organised for the allocation of frequencies in the 800, 900, 1800 and 2600 MHz bands, two primary rounds were held. Taking into account the fact that the request exceeds the offer in at...

2012-09-07

ANCOM organises this year’s second ordinary examination session for the issuance of radio operator certificates and radioamateur certificates

Between 19 September and 20 October 2012, the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM), by means of its regional divisions of Bucharest, Cluj, Iasi and Timis, organises an ordinary examination session for the issuance of radioamateur certificates...

2012-09-05

Most of the Providers Verified by ANCOM Observe the Legislation on Informing the End-Users

Between March and August 2012, the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) conducted 836 inspections on the electronic communications providers and their partners in order to verify compliance with the obligations of informing the end-users, as imposed...