The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) publishes the Guidelines on concluding interconnection agreements, a document meant to facilitate negotiations between providers of public electronic communications networks, for fixed and mobile voice call termination sevices.
At the beginning of 2024, ANCOM withdrew the obligations imposed at national level on operators identified with significant power on the relevant markets corresponding to voice call termination services provided at fixed locations, respectively at mobile locations on the public telephone networks. Moreover, ANCOM established a transitional period of one year, until 18 March 2025, during which the previous obligations remained in force.
ANCOM has developed best practices Guidelines in order to ensure a coherent, transparent and predictable framework for achieving interconnection between providers of electronic communications networks and services.
The Guidelines contain key recommendations on the transparency of interconnection information, technical and economic conditions, negotiation of agreements and the role of ANCOM. These Guidelines are designed to reduce the time of negotiation in the conclusion of interconnection agreements.
ANCOM will continue to monitor the interconnection agreements concluded between electronic communications network providers, in order to ensure that the interconnection mechanism works effectively in this market, after the lifting of ex-ante regulations. To this end, providers are required to submit copies of interconnection agreements to ANCOM after 18 March 2025, as well.
The Guidelines on the conclusion of interconnection agreements for the provision of voice call termination services provided at fixed/mobile locations was in public consultation between 2 April and 5 May 2025 and is available, in Romanian, here.