ANRCTI allotted new numbering resources to S.C. RCS & RDS S.A., S.C. Total Inter Media S.R.L. and S.C. Transilvania Digital Network S.A., for the provision of telephony services.
After being granted the license for 3G services, the RCS & RDS company requested from ANRCTI, during January 2006, to be allotted numbering resources within the 0Z=07 domain for the provision of mobile telephone services through the 3G technology. ANRCTI allotted RCS & RDS 1 million national non-geographic numbers, of the 0770 xxx xxx format.
In Romania, the winners of the 3G licenses were Vodafone Romania, Orange Romania, Telemobil and RCS& RDS, the latter two companies being granted licenses following a tender organised by the Inspectorate General for Communications and Information technology (IGCTI) in 2006. By the end of the year, Vodafone Romania estimated 250,000 customers on the 3G segment, while Orange Romania published a similar amount that includes the EDGE users (also known as 2.75G).
According to the license granted by ANRCTI, RCS & RDS also has the right to use 130,000 numbers for the provision of fixed telephone services in the Vaslui, Teleorman, Arges, Olt, Valcea, Mehedinti, Gorj, Hunedoara, Caras-Severin, Timis, Cluj, Covasna and Sibiu counties.
S.C. Total Inter Media S.R.L. company, a first time requester, has been granted the right to use 10,000 numbers for the provision of fixed telephone services in Tulcea county.
S.C. Transilvania Digital Network S.A., also a first time requester, has been granted the right to use 30,000 numbers within the 0Z=03 domain in Mures, Harghita and Sibiu counties, as well as the right to use 1,000 numbers within the 0Z=08 domain, for services provided through Green Numbers.
So far, ANRCTI allotted more than 68.45 million numbers based on the procedure of granting licences for the use of numbering resources. 56.4% of these have been allotted for fixed telephone services, whereas 42.4% of the allotted numbering resources were assigned for the provision of mobile telephone services.
Further details on the numbering resources allotted by ANRCTI are available here.