Press Releases

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...

2009-05-14

Starting Today, More Information for the Telephony Users

Today, 14 May, the decision on the obligations of informing the end-users, incumbent on the providers of publicly available electronic communications services will enter into force. Thus, the telephony operators will have the obligation to better inform their customers regarding...

2009-05-08

National Numbers for Directory Enquiry Services in the 118(xyz) Range May Be Activated Within 12 Months from Allotment

The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) has launched for public consultation a draft decision with a view to extending the activation term for the National Numbers for Directory Enquiry Services in the 118(xyz) range by six...

2009-04-30

Five Offers for the Provision of the Directory Enquiry Service and of the Subscriber Directory

Within the two tender procedures launched in March, ANCOM received five offers: two offers (from Infoclick and Mediasat) for the designation of the universal service provider that will make publicly available a directory enquiry service and three offers (from Infoclick,...

2009-04-28

Mobile Telephone Networks Overburdened, after Earthquake

The control carried out by ANCOM at the main telephony operators revealed that no interruptions occurred in the functioning of the telephone networks immediately after the earthquake of Saturday, 25 April. However, significant traffic congestions were registered, which led to...

2009-04-27

Three Mobile Operators Will Decrease Their Interconnection Tariffs Starting 1 May 2009

”I have signed and sent the operators the individual decisions on the designation of all the five mobile operators from Romania as providers with significant power on the market of mobile call termination on their own networks. By these decisions,...

2009-04-09

Higher Broadband Penetration – ANCOM’s Top Priority in 2009

”The broadband penetration rate in Romania is half the average penetration rate in the EU. In the century of speed and information, a connection to broadband Internet at affordable tariffs should not be considered luxury, but a necessity of public...

2009-04-09

The Romanian Communications Market Reached Its Maturity

“The preliminary statistical data on the evolution of the 2008 Romanian electronic communications market show that this market reached its maturity. We have the highest fixed telephony penetration rate of all times, a significant growth pace of the number of...

2009-04-07

ANCOM Organises a New Examination Session for the Achievement of the Radio Amateur Certificate and of the Certificate of Radio Operator in the Mobile Terrestrial Service

The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications, by means of its territorial departments of Bucharest, Cluj and Timisoara, organises the ordinary examination session in view of achieving the radio amateur certificate (25 – 28 April 2009), as well...

2009-04-03

Catalin Marinescu is the President of ANCOM

On Thursday, 2 April 2009, Marius Catalin Marinescu was assigned President of the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM), for a six-year mandate, by the presidential decree no.509 of 1 April 2009, published yesterday in the Romanian...

2009-03-27

ANCOM Proposes the Designation of CNPR as Universal Service Provider in the Postal Sector, Starting 26 April 2009 until 31 December 2012

Today, 27 March 2009, the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) launches for public consultation a draft decision on the designation of the National Company Romanian Post (CNPR) as a universal service provider in the postal sector,...

2009-03-20

The Communications Regulator Is Now under Parliamentary Control

The National Authority for Communications of Romania has been reorganised into the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM), an autonomous public authority with legal personality, under parliamentary control. ANCOM has the role of enforcing the national policy...