Press Releases
2024-04-12
All You Need to Know About Digital Services – on ANCOM’s InfoCenter
ANCOM meets the information needs of the users as recipients of intermediary services, launching an all-encompassing InfoCenter section dedicated to digital services. The Digital Services Act (DSA) aims to ensure a safe and transparent online environment – an online environment...
2024-04-03
Minister’s Orders
NULL All You Need to Know About Digital Services – on ANCOM’s InfoCenter | Vizită de lucru a Președintelui ANCOM la Autoritatea de Reglementare în Comunicații (CRA) din statul Qatar | Conditions on concluding distance contracts for electronic communications services...
2024-04-03
Conditions on concluding distance contracts for electronic communications services
In an increasingly digitalised world, both providers of electronic communications services and the users of such services often choose to conclude distance contracts for the provision of these services. ANCOM meets this trend with clear regulations to ensure a fair...
2024-03-28
Digital Services Law: public consultation on the information procedure applicable to the providers of intermediary services containing clarifications
After the entry into force of Law no. 50/2024 on establishing measures for the application of the Regulation 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on a Single Market for Digital Services and amending...
2024-03-25
ANCOM: conditions and rules of communication through the new electronic service My ANCOM
The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications launches for public consultation the draft decision on the submission of documents through the electronic service My ANCOM. Via the new service developed by ANCOM, a new, electronic communication channel with...
2024-03-25
Emergency calls and multimedia conversations to 112 via IP networks
ANCOM submits to public consultation a draft decision reviewing the decision on establishing communications to the National Unique System for Emergency Calls (SNUAU), which will facilitate the deployment of emergency communications through 4G and 5G technologies. By using the IP...
2024-03-20
ANCOM withdraws obligations from fixed and mobile voice call termination markets - tariffs are regulated at European level
After going through the national and European public consultation processes, the decision on the withdrawal of individual obligations incumbent on the providers of fixed and, respectively, mobile voice call termination services that had been designated with significant power in the...
2024-03-19
The law on digital services has been published in the Official Journal
Law no. 50/2024 on establishing measures for the application of the Regulation 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on a Single Market for Digital Services and amending Directive 2000/31/EC, as well as on...
2024-03-07
DSA: Intermediary service providers must inform ANCOM on the types of services they offer
ANCOM has launched for public consultation the draft decision on the information procedure applicable to intermediary service providers. The draft decision lays down certain procedural aspects meant to contribute to the application of the national law elaborated for the implementation...
2024-03-07
DSA: The procedure for the certification of trusted flaggers, under public consultation
ANCOM has launched for public consultation the draft decision on the procedure for the certification of trusted flaggers. The draft decision sets the conditions and the procedure on the award, suspension, cessation and revocation of the trusted flagger status, as...
2024-02-29
The users of electronic communications services have the right to be informed when they reach a consumption limit exceeding the monthly subscription value
The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) informs the users of telephony and internet access services from Romania on the obligation incumbent on the providers to offer the possibility to monitor, in due time, the level of...
2024-02-15
ANCOM updated the regulations on network security
Following the public consultation process, ANCOM adopted Decision no. 70/2024 on the security of public electronic communications networks and publicly available electronic communications services, which harmonizes the provisions of secondary legislation with the provisions of the primary legal framework in...
2024-02-14
DSA: Decisions on handling complaints regarding digital services and certification of out-of-court dispute resolution bodies, in public consultation
ANCOM has launched a public consultation on the draft decision for establishing the procedure of handling complaints regarding digital services and the draft decision establishing the procedure for the certification of out-of-court settlement bodies dealing with disputes against online platform...
2024-02-06
Administrative quality parameters
The Internet access providers will include in the contracts a series of administrative quality parameters such as: the term from which the Internet access will be provided, expressed in calendar days; the damage repair term, expressed in hours; the term...
2024-02-06
ANCOM’s 2024 Action Plan - in public consultation
ANCOM has launched its action plan for 2024 for public consultation. This year, the Authority plans – inter alia – to continue projects concerning the technical and economic regulatory framework of electronic communications services, with particular focus on the strategic...
2024-01-31
2023 Review: More than 3800 complaints received by ANCOM from users of electronic communications services and postal services
The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) received and solved 3,835 complaints from users of electronic communications services and postal services in 2023, of which 70% concerned the electronic communications sector and 24% the postal services sector....
2024-01-29
ANCOM deregulates the markets for fixed and mobile voice call termination, given the establishment of Eurorates
Following the national public consultation process, ANCOM together with the industry has agreed the draft decision on withdrawing the individual obligations incumbent on the providers of voice call termination at fixed and – respectively – mobile locations, that had been...
2024-01-26
2023 review: More than 3500 control actions in the telecom sector
In 2023, ANCOM carried out 3,579 control actions to ensure the enforcement and observance of the legal provisions and of the regulations imposed by the Authority to promote competition on the markets for electronic communications and postal services and to...
2024-01-19
More than 1.5 million telephone numbers ported in 2023
In 2023, the upward trend in the volume of ported phone numbers continued, with a new peak reached since the launch of the portability service, in 2008. Thus, 1,541,269 phone numbers changed their operator last year, while keeping the user....
2024-01-10
Itemised bills for electronic communications services - a useful tool to keep a check on expenses
The affordability of telephone and internet services is linked, inter alia, to the users’ receiving information on the costs incurred and to the ability to keep a check on their expenses. In addition to the usual standard bill, which is...