ANRC has allotted – from the beginning of September – numbering resources to RCS&RDS S.A., Danubius Telecom S.R.L. and Nxtel Solutions S.R.L.
RCS&RDS S.A. and Danubius Telecom S.R.L. requested and were granted new numbering resources, in addition to the previously allotted ones.
RCS&RDS was granted 10,000 national geographic numbers in the 0Z=03 domain for the provision of fixed telephone services in the county of Arad.
Danubius Telecom was granted 410,000 numbers to be used for the provision of fixed telephone services (in the 0Z=03 domain), i.e. blocks of 1,000 numbers, for each of the following services: services provided through green and universal access numbers, as well as the indicative 1675 for one-step carrier selection procedure.
Upon its first request for numbering resources, Nxtel Solutions was granted the right to use 410,000 numbers for the provision of fixed telephone services (national geographic numbers in the 0Z=03 domain), as well as blocks of 1,000 numbers for each of the following categories of various services (the 0Z=08 domain): services provided through green and universal access numbers and through prepaid and virtual cards, televoting services, data network and Internet access services. Furthermore, this provider was granted blocks of 1,000 numbers for the provision of each of the following premium rate services (the 0Z=09 domain): entertainment, games, telephone contests, general information, business and marketing information, adult entertainment. The users who choose to perform telephone calls through the network of Nxtel Solutions will have to dial the indicative 1052 (two-step indicative).
As well, following the request of Ktel Center, ANRC repealed the licence for the use of numbering resources granted to his company.
Additional Information
What is Carrier Selection?
Carrier selection allows the end-users of fixed telephone services to choose whether a certain call is taken over and terminated long-distance or internationally by a carrier, other than the provider or providers they subscribe to and use for local calls. This can be done by dialling a code before dialling the digits of the (international or long-distance) telephone number they wish to call from a telephone connected to a fixed telephony network. The users can make this option when they consider the carrier’s offer is more advantageous than the offer of their provider as regards financial and quality aspects.
The carrier selection indicative (carrier code) is a sequence of digits of the 10xy or 16xy type.
Two-step carrier selection:
Formerly, these services were provided by means of an intermediate tone (dialling 10xy type codes, i.e. two-step carrier selection indicatives) that followed the carrier code.
One-step carrier selection:
ANRC took all the measures as to offer the end-users the possibility to benefit from the carrier selection procedure, while eliminating the intermediate step between dialling the carrier code and the number called. In this respect, ANRC tested and afterwards introduced a new category of numbering resources, comprising 16xy type codes (one-step carrier selection indicatives), that was technically necessary for the end-users to benefit from this new option.