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ANCOM propune scăderea tarifelor de interconectare la telefonie

29.08.2013

 
The Romanian Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) launched today for public consultation, the maximum rates proposed for the fixed and mobile call termination services, determined based on cost calculation models. The Authority proposes that, starting from 1 January 2014, the maximum tariff for fixed call termination drop from 0.67 to 0.15 eurocents/minute, while the maximum tariff for mobile call termination decreases from 3.07 to 0.86 eurocents/minute.
The maximum rates will become mandatory for all the network providers in Romania, identified as having significant power in the fixed and respectively mobile markets for call termination in Romania: 51 providers of fixed networks and 6 providers of mobile networks. As usual, the termination tariffs are not differentiated by the technology used (e.g., 2G or 3G, PSTN or IP), by the time interval when calls are performed, or by their origination (fixed locations, mobile locations, national or international networks).
”Interconnection rates remain the key to competition in telecom. On the termination market, each operator has a natural monopoly and therefore we need to regulate these tariffs, while the market data prove that the levels established by ANCOM in the past 10 years stimulated competition, innovation and investment in the Romanian communications market. Under competitive pressures, the average call rates are now 7 times lower, whereas consumption boomed”, declaredCătălin Marinescu, the ANCOM President.  
Competition has not only triggered increasingly lower tariffs – at present, the Romanian users pay one of the lowest average tariffs in the European Union, e.g. 1.9 eurocents/minute – but it has also stimulated telecom operators to massively invest in the development of increasingly efficient networks and in the provision of new services, such as broadband internet. Moreover, anticipating the trends of the Romanian communications market, the providers of mobile communications networks have considerably enhanced their portfolios of frequencies last year. On their turn, the providers of fixed communications networks have invested in state-of-the-art networks, capable to deliver their customers internet access speeds in line with the ones set by the European Union in the Digital Agenda.
The termination rate is the wholesale price paid by a telephony provider to the operator in whose network the former’s users terminate their calls. Since this price ultimately impacts the rates charged on the caller, termination rates that are excessively high as compared with the costs of efficient provision may jeopardize competition in the telephony market and distort the users’ consumption behaviour.
Therefore, to obtain the accurate values of the termination rates, ANCOM has calculated the efficient costs of service provision, using working hypotheses in accordance with the Romanian legislation, information sent by the network providers, as well as the best modelling practices used in the European Union, the models having been already publicly consulted in the fourth quarter of 2012.
”I do believe that these measures will further foster competition, thus stimulating the development of increasingly efficient networks, which are used by more and more users, for ever more volumes of diversified services”,the ANCOM President pointed out.
The measures under public consultation also propose new tariff ceilings for other regulated electronic communications services, respectively the national transit of calls, ancillary interconnection services offered by all the providers of communications networks, leased lines-terminating segments services and Ethernet backhaul services, provided by Romtelecom.
The documents are available on ANCOM’s website here. The interested persons are invited to send their comments and suggestions, by 30.09.2013, at the ANCOM headquarters in 2 Delea Noua Street, Bucharest 3, or directly to the ANCOM Registry Office. Comments may also be sent by fax to +40 372 845 404 or by e-mail to consultare@ancom.org.ro.
Following the period of public consultation and analysis of the comments and suggestions received, according to the provisions of the European regulatory framework in the field and of the relevant Romanian legislation, the proposed tariffs may be subject to adjustments. Moreover, ANCOM is to notify the European Commission and the other national regulatory authorities in the European Union on the proposed set of measures, alongside a presentation of the grounds thereof. The European Commission and the other regulatory authorities will be invited to send their comments and suggestions to ANCOM throughout one month since the notification date, of which ANCOM will have to take the utmost account. These measures are proposed to enter into force on 1 January 2014.

ANCOM propune scăderea tarifelor de interconectare la telefonie

29.08.2013

 
The Romanian Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) launched today for public consultation, the maximum rates proposed for the fixed and mobile call termination services, determined based on cost calculation models. The Authority proposes that, starting from 1 January 2014, the maximum tariff for fixed call termination drop from 0.67 to 0.15 eurocents/minute, while the maximum tariff for mobile call termination decreases from 3.07 to 0.86 eurocents/minute.
The maximum rates will become mandatory for all the network providers in Romania, identified as having significant power in the fixed and respectively mobile markets for call termination in Romania: 51 providers of fixed networks and 6 providers of mobile networks. As usual, the termination tariffs are not differentiated by the technology used (e.g., 2G or 3G, PSTN or IP), by the time interval when calls are performed, or by their origination (fixed locations, mobile locations, national or international networks).
”Interconnection rates remain the key to competition in telecom. On the termination market, each operator has a natural monopoly and therefore we need to regulate these tariffs, while the market data prove that the levels established by ANCOM in the past 10 years stimulated competition, innovation and investment in the Romanian communications market. Under competitive pressures, the average call rates are now 7 times lower, whereas consumption boomed”, declaredCătălin Marinescu, the ANCOM President.  
Competition has not only triggered increasingly lower tariffs – at present, the Romanian users pay one of the lowest average tariffs in the European Union, e.g. 1.9 eurocents/minute – but it has also stimulated telecom operators to massively invest in the development of increasingly efficient networks and in the provision of new services, such as broadband internet. Moreover, anticipating the trends of the Romanian communications market, the providers of mobile communications networks have considerably enhanced their portfolios of frequencies last year. On their turn, the providers of fixed communications networks have invested in state-of-the-art networks, capable to deliver their customers internet access speeds in line with the ones set by the European Union in the Digital Agenda.
The termination rate is the wholesale price paid by a telephony provider to the operator in whose network the former’s users terminate their calls. Since this price ultimately impacts the rates charged on the caller, termination rates that are excessively high as compared with the costs of efficient provision may jeopardize competition in the telephony market and distort the users’ consumption behaviour.
Therefore, to obtain the accurate values of the termination rates, ANCOM has calculated the efficient costs of service provision, using working hypotheses in accordance with the Romanian legislation, information sent by the network providers, as well as the best modelling practices used in the European Union, the models having been already publicly consulted in the fourth quarter of 2012.
”I do believe that these measures will further foster competition, thus stimulating the development of increasingly efficient networks, which are used by more and more users, for ever more volumes of diversified services”,the ANCOM President pointed out.
The measures under public consultation also propose new tariff ceilings for other regulated electronic communications services, respectively the national transit of calls, ancillary interconnection services offered by all the providers of communications networks, leased lines-terminating segments services and Ethernet backhaul services, provided by Romtelecom.
The documents are available on ANCOM’s website here. The interested persons are invited to send their comments and suggestions, by 30.09.2013, at the ANCOM headquarters in 2 Delea Noua Street, Bucharest 3, or directly to the ANCOM Registry Office. Comments may also be sent by fax to +40 372 845 404 or by e-mail to consultare@ancom.org.ro.
Following the period of public consultation and analysis of the comments and suggestions received, according to the provisions of the European regulatory framework in the field and of the relevant Romanian legislation, the proposed tariffs may be subject to adjustments. Moreover, ANCOM is to notify the European Commission and the other national regulatory authorities in the European Union on the proposed set of measures, alongside a presentation of the grounds thereof. The European Commission and the other regulatory authorities will be invited to send their comments and suggestions to ANCOM throughout one month since the notification date, of which ANCOM will have to take the utmost account. These measures are proposed to enter into force on 1 January 2014.
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