The President of ANCOM, Mr. Catalin Marinescu, has opened in Iasi the anniversary exhibition on the occasion of celebrating 20 years of modern radio spectrum management in Romania. The exhibition presents to the public a series of radio equipment items, documents and various materials illustrating the evolution over time of Romanian communications. Among the items exposed, you may find models of the last ebonite telephone sets manufactured in our country, telephone sets used on the battle field during World War II, the first frequency measurement apparatus used by the Authority’s experts, as well as models of mobile telephones offered in Romania by the first operators of mobile telephone services, and an impressive collection of stamps displaying the evolution of the telecom sector.
This year we celebrate 20 years since the establishment in Romania of the first institutions in charge of radio spectrum management. In 1990, the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications was reorganised by separating the executive responsibilities from the operating and exploitation ones. This is when the Ministry of Communications and ROM-POST-TELECOM, the first Romanian ”national company”, were established. This company took over the operational activities in the field of telecommunications, radiocommunications and post, whereas the Ministry remained in charge of the elaboration and enforcement of the policies, strategies and regulations in the field.
2011 marks 20 years since, following its reorganisation in 1991, ROM-POST-TELECOM was split into four national companies: Romtelecom, Romanian Post, Radiocommunications and the General Inspectorate for Radiocommunications (IGR) and one company – Bancpost. Later on, the current regulatory authority in the field was established following the merger between the General Inspectorate for Communications and the National Regulatory Authority for Communications (ANRC) in 2007.
The exhibition is open for visitors until 31 January 2012, Monday to Sunday between 08:00 and 20:00 hours, at the “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University, Hall of the Lost Footsteps, 11 Carol I Boulevard, Iasi, starting today, 11:00 hours. The entrance is free.