14 April 2011
14.04.2011
Yesterday, ANCOM agreed with the electronic communications industry on the decision on the statistical data reported by the providers of public electronic communications networks and of publicly available electronic communications services. The amendment of the indicators was imposed by the recent evolutions and trends in the Romanian and international electronic communications markets, by the emergence of new technologies and services, as well as by the existence of ambiguities as regards the categories of information corresponding to certain statistical indicators.
The providers offeringfixed telephone services or low mobility services will report the number of subscribers, lines and revenues from the respective subscriptions, itemised by category of customers (residential or business), by area where the access lines were installed (urban or rural), as well as by access technology. The traffic and the revenues will be reported, as well, by the category of customers who generated them, respectively residential or business users. All the providers of public networks offering access at a fixed location will report the number of cabled households, irrespective of the services they provide to the end-users (fixed telephony, Internet access, audio-visual programme retransmission), itemised by the support whereby the end-users are connected to the networks. Furthermore, they will report the level of territory and population coverage with terrestrial analogue radio, DVB-T and WiMAX networks.
The providers ofmobile telephone serviceswill report data on the coverage of territory/population by the types of networks employed (GSM, UMTS, CDMA etc.).As per the number of prepaid cards, the providers will need to report both the number of “valid” prepaid cards (prepaid cards which were valid at the end of the reporting period, including the ones in the period of grace) and of “active” prepaid cards (prepaid cards valid at the end of the reporting period and effectively used at least once in the validity period).
Considering the necessity to monitor the evolution of the level of development of theInternet access services, ANCOM requires the providers offixedInternet access services to report the number of connections itemised by five speed intervals, separately for each access technology, whereas the total number of connections will be reported distinctly and by the area where these were installed (urban or rural).
The statistical indicators corresponding tomobile Internet access services will be reported separately, itemised by the support used for connection, i.e. telephone set/mobile terminal and, respectively, modems/cards/USB (directly on laptop/PC/another similar device), and by the technology used for connection, i.e. GSM/GPRS,EDGE, 3G, LTE, CDMA and EV-DO.
Moreover, the providers will report the data traffic of the Internet access and data transmission services in the public networks with both fixed and mobile access.
Following the consultation, ANCOM decided to change the timeframes under the draft decision and introduced new provisions on the reporting of indicators related to investments in, and revenues achieved from, the provision of electronic communications networks and/or services. Thus, by the 10th of August, the providers of electronic communications networks or services will report the data corresponding to the 1 January – 30 June period, and, respectively, by the 10th of February, the data corresponding to the 1 July – 31 December period. The revenues and investments data will be reported until the 31st of May of the following year.