Press Releases
2009-01-06
More than 15,000 Telephone Numbers Ported in Two Months
In the first two months since the launch of number portability, almost 25,000 porting requests have been submitted – over 21,000 for mobile numbers and over 3,000 for fixed numbers. Speaking of fixed telephony, 1,694 numbers have been ported so...
2008-12-23
New Draft Measures for Establishing the Directory Enquiry Services and the Subscriber Directories
The National Authority for Communications launches for public consultation a draft decision aimed at setting the 31st of July 2009 as the deadline by which the providers of publicly available telephone services that allocate telephone numbers to their subscribers should...
2008-12-22
ANC Completes the Legal Framework for Electronic Signature
Today, 22 December 2008, ANC has launched for public consultation the draft decision on the mechanism of checking electronic signatures and the draft decision on the procedure of agreeing the bodies that certify the secured devices for generating electronic signature....
2008-12-22
New Projects and Reviews of Current Regulations Foreseen for 2009
Today, the National Authority for Communications has announced its propositions for the Authority’s 2009 Action Plan on the regulation in the fields of electronic communications, postal services and information technology. “We elaborated the 2009 Action Plan in line with the...
2008-12-16
6 companies interested in the BWA licences
Six companies purchased the Terms of Reference for the granting of the two licences for the use of radio frequencies required to provide electronic communications services by means of broadband wireless access (BWA). The Terms of Reference were available for...
2008-12-11
ANC Demands Blocking the Access to 40 Pornographic Websites
Today, December 11, the National Authority for Communications has decided to block the access to 40 pornographic websites, for failing to comply with the provisions of article 7 of Law no.196/2003 on preventing and fighting pornography, republished. The ANC investigation...
2008-12-03
ANC Allotted 118xyz Short Numbers
The National Authority for Communications allotted the first national short numbers in the 118xyz range for harmonised services at European level. The 118xyz telephone numbers are assigned, at European level, to the directory enquiry services. In Romania, such numbers will...
2008-12-03
Increased number of users for All Electronic Communications Services in Romania
The statistical data regarding the Romanian electronic communications market reported by the providers to the National Authority for Communications, for the first half of 2008, indicate a steady growth of the number of mobile telephony users, as well as of...
2008-11-28
ANC President Signed the Licence Granted to SNR for the Use of Frequency Bands that Allow Implementation of BWA Services
The ANC President, Liviu Nistoran, signed the licence granted to the Radiocommunications National Society (SNR) for the use of radio frequencies in the 3600 – 3800 MHz band in view of providing public electronic communications networks and publicly available electronic...
2008-11-27
ANC Launches for Public Consultation Two Draft Decisions regarding Postal Services
Today, 27 November 2008, ANC has launched for public consultation a draft decision for the amendment and completion of the ANRC President’s Decision no.88/2004 on the designation of the Universal Service providers in the field of postal services and a...
2008-11-25
33 Postal Items per Romanian in 2007
ANC made public today the statistical data report on the 2007 Romanian postal market. According to these data, in 2007, the total postal traffic registered 702,981,707 postal items, i.e. on average, 32.65 postal items per inhabitant, increasing from 26.72 in...
2008-11-25
ANC Keeps the Draft Regulations regarding the Mobile Termination Markets Posted for Consultation, for 30 Days
The draft decisions regarding the mobile termination markets will remain available for public consultation 30 days, until 22 December 2008. The Authority intended an emergency consultation procedure for these draft decisions, given the coming reduction of the interconnection tariffs charged...
2008-11-24
ANC Launches for Sale the BWA Terms of Reference
Today, ANC has launched for sale the Terms of Reference for the comparative selection procedure in view of granting two licences for the use of the radio frequencies that allow the provision of public electronic communications networks and publicly available...
2008-11-20
ANC to Decrease the Interconnection Tariffs of All Mobile Operators
”Following the completion of a new market survey, ANC proposes to impose the cost-orientation obligation on all five mobile telephony operators, and, respectively, the obligation to reduce the interconnection tariffs charged by Cosmote, Telemobil and RCS&RDS, while allowing them to...
2008-11-19
ANC to Decrease the Interconnection Tariffs of All Mobile Operators
”The number of subscribers to services of audio-visual programme retransmission in Romania grew from 5.24 million, at the end of 2007, to 5.58 million, at the end of June 2008. Almost 2 million of these subscribers use DTH satellite networks”,...
2008-11-13
Telephony Providers Required to Better Inform Their Clients
Today, ANC launches the draft decision on the obligations of the electronic communications providers to inform the end-users for public debate. The draft decision proposes a set of solutions for the information deficiencies the communications users in Romania deal with,...
2008-11-12
Providers May Now Offer Temporal Marking
“Starting Monday, November 10, 2008, the companies interested in providing temporal marking services may send ANC notifications on starting such activity. Temporal mark is necessary to authenticate documents and has practical applications in areas such as: electronic commerce, electronic signature,...
2008-11-11
In the Following Three Years, the Number of Romanian Online Stores Will Grow by 50% per Year, Reaching 3,000 in 2011
A study ordered by ANC in view of assessing the Romanian electronic commerce market, conducted during September – October 2008, revealed that the number of Romanian online stores would keep growing by 50% per year during 2009 – 2011, reaching...
2008-10-31
Prank Callers to 112 Will Be Overwhelmed with SMS
Yesterday, the decision on the terms for establishing communications with the National Unique System for Emergency Calls (SNUAU), alongside a first set of steps against prank callers to 112, entered into force. As soon as the Special Telecommunications Service, together...
2008-10-30
ANC announces the first porting of a number
Today, October 30, 2008, the president of the National Authority for Communications, Liviu Nistoran, has announced, during a press conference, the porting of the first telephone number in Romania. „I am pleased to announce you that yesterday, October 29, 2008,...