Press Releases

2009-09-15

ANCOM Launches for Public Consultation the Regulation on the Cost Calculation Model to be Developed by the National Radiocommunications Company

ANCOM launches for public consultation the draft decision on the approval of the Regulation on the cost calculation model to be developed by the National Radiocommunications Company (SNR), based on the fully allocated cost method. In early 2009, SNR was...

2009-09-10

690 Million Postal Items in 2008

ANCOM published today the Report on the 2008 Romanian Postal Market. The statistical data, collected from the postal service providers, reveal that the 2008 postal traffic registered 687,525,363 postal items, slightly (by 2.2%) less than in 2007. Nevertheless, the revenues...

2009-09-01

ANCOM Launches for Consultation the Draft Decision on the Provision of Third Generation Communications Services in the 900 MHz and 1800 MHz Bands

Today, ANCOM launched for public consultation the draft decision on the harmonisation of the use of the 880-915 MHz, 925-960 MHz, 1710-1747.5 MHz and 1805-1842.5 MHz radio frequency bands. According to the draft, the operators holding these bands, by licence,...

2009-08-26

ANCOM Assessed the Impact of the SMS Campaign on Pranksters Abusing the Emergency Number 112

The assessment of the provisional measure of warning, by SMS, all those who unjustifiedly call the emergency number 112 revealed that the SMS campaign is not effective enough, having proved a weak and transitory impact. This provisional measure, initiated last...

2009-08-20

ANCOM Launches for Public Consultation a Series of Amendments and Completions to the General Authorisation Regime for the Postal Service Providers

ANCOM launches for public consultation a draft decision which proposes the amendment and completion of the general authorisation regime for the provision of postal services. The general authorisation regime is the legal regime that establishes the rights and obligations of...

2009-08-11

ANCOM Draws Attention on Mobile Telephones Accidentally Going into the Roaming Mode

ANCOM is on a monitoring mission at the country borders these days, in order to verify whether text messages (SMS) announce mobile telephone users on entering the roaming mode. The ANCOM specialists encountered situations when such messages were delayed, therefore...

2009-08-05

ANCOM’s Recommendations Regarding the Post-Earthquake Use of Telephone Networks

The telephone networks have a limited capacity as regards call management. Under emergency circumstances, a sudden increase of the number of calls may overburden the networks and, consequently, block them. How can you avoid blocking the telephone networks under emergency...

2009-08-04

Collaboration protocol concluded between the Competition Council and ANCOM

Today, the President of the Competition Council, Bogdan Chiritoiu, and the President of the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM), Catalin Marinescu, have signed a new collaboration protocol with a view to ensure and promote competition in...

2009-07-16

ANCOM reviews the Wholesale and Retail Markets corresponding to fixed telephony services

ANCOM submits for public consultation three draft decisions reviewing the retail markets for access and calls services provided at a fixed location and the wholesale markets for services of call origination at fixed locations and transit on the public telephone...

2009-07-09

ANCOM Decided to Extend the Prioritization System for Calls to 112

ANCOM has completed the assessment of the providers’ manner of implementing the steps for the prioritization of calls to the emergency number 112 and transmitted the Ministry of Communications and Information Society a set of recommendations in view of handling...

2009-06-30

100,000 Telephone Numbers Ported in Romania

  At the beginning of this week, the 100,000th telephone number has been successfully ported in Romania. ”One hundred thousand numbers have been ported. Just as many as to show us that number portability is working and that the Romanian...

2009-06-30

100,000 Telephone Numbers Ported in Romania

At the beginning of this week, the 100,000th telephone number has been successfully ported in Romania. ”One hundred thousand numbers have been ported. Just as many as to show us that number portability is working and that the Romanian telephony...

2009-06-29

Mobile Telephony Operators Will Release, Upon Request, the Handsets Locked on Their Network

  Starting from September, the mobile telephony operators on the Romanian market will unlock, upon the users’ request, the handsets encoded on their networks. ANCOM, together with the Association of Mobile Operators in Romania (AOMR) and its members, have laid...

2009-06-26

Numbering Resources Allotted by ANCOM

So far, ANCOM has allotted 11.29 million numbers in the 0Z=02 domain and more than 20 million numbers in the 0Z=03 domain for fixed telephone services, 50 million in the 0Z=07 domain for mobile telephone services, as well as more...

2009-06-24

Amendments to the Strategy for the 3.6-3.8 GHz Frequency Proposed by ANCOM

    Following the consultation with the electronic communications operators and the providers of equipments operating in the 3.6 – 3.8 GHz radio frequency bands, today, ANCOM has sent the Ministry of Communications and Information Society (MCSI) a set of...

2009-06-10

InfoClick Is the Universal Service Provider to Create and Manage a Subscriber Directory and Offer a Directory Enquiry Service

Following the assessment of the offers submitted by three companies during the two tender procedures for making available a directory enquiry service and a subscriber directory, ANCOM designated as a universal service provider the company InfoClick SA, in association with...

2009-06-04

In 2008, the Mobile Telephony Users Made 16 Billion Calls

  “Although in 2008 the first signs of the world economic crisis appeared in Romania too, all the electronic communications sectors registered significant increases. We will be able to assess the effects of the current economic climate on the Romanian...

2009-06-01

ANCOM Adopted a Decision Extending the Activation Term for 118(xyz) Numbers

Yesterday, 29 May 2009, the ANCOM President adopted and sent for publication in the Romanian Official Journal the Decision no.379/2009 amending the Decision of the National Regulatory Authority for Communications and Information Technology no.321/2008 on the allocation and use of...

2009-05-22

ANCOM Welcomes Telecommunications Students to Internship

Today, 22 May 2009, ANCOM organised, at its premises in Bucharest, Cluj, Iasi and Timisoara, meetings with more than 100 students and with professors of the faculties of Electronics and Telecommunications of the four university centres. The programme “ANCOM Supports...

2009-05-15

17 May 2009 – A Day Dedicated to "Protecting Children in Cyberspace"

Every year, on the 17th of May, people celebrate the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, aiming to raise awareness of the possibilities that the use of the Internet and other information and communication technologies (ICT) can bring to societies...