Press Releases
2024-03-07
DSA: Intermediary service providers must inform ANCOM on the types of services they offer
ANCOM has launched for public consultation the draft decision on the information procedure applicable to intermediary service providers. The draft decision lays down certain procedural aspects meant to contribute to the application of the national law elaborated for the implementation...
2024-03-07
DSA: The procedure for the certification of trusted flaggers, under public consultation
ANCOM has launched for public consultation the draft decision on the procedure for the certification of trusted flaggers. The draft decision sets the conditions and the procedure on the award, suspension, cessation and revocation of the trusted flagger status, as...
2024-02-29
The users of electronic communications services have the right to be informed when they reach a consumption limit exceeding the monthly subscription value
The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) informs the users of telephony and internet access services from Romania on the obligation incumbent on the providers to offer the possibility to monitor, in due time, the level of...
2024-02-15
ANCOM updated the regulations on network security
Following the public consultation process, ANCOM adopted Decision no. 70/2024 on the security of public electronic communications networks and publicly available electronic communications services, which harmonizes the provisions of secondary legislation with the provisions of the primary legal framework in...
2024-02-14
DSA: Decisions on handling complaints regarding digital services and certification of out-of-court dispute resolution bodies, in public consultation
ANCOM has launched a public consultation on the draft decision for establishing the procedure of handling complaints regarding digital services and the draft decision establishing the procedure for the certification of out-of-court settlement bodies dealing with disputes against online platform...
2024-02-06
Administrative quality parameters
The Internet access providers will include in the contracts a series of administrative quality parameters such as: the term from which the Internet access will be provided, expressed in calendar days; the damage repair term, expressed in hours; the term...
2024-02-06
ANCOM’s 2024 Action Plan - in public consultation
ANCOM has launched its action plan for 2024 for public consultation. This year, the Authority plans – inter alia – to continue projects concerning the technical and economic regulatory framework of electronic communications services, with particular focus on the strategic...
2024-01-31
2023 Review: More than 3800 complaints received by ANCOM from users of electronic communications services and postal services
The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) received and solved 3,835 complaints from users of electronic communications services and postal services in 2023, of which 70% concerned the electronic communications sector and 24% the postal services sector....
2024-01-29
ANCOM deregulates the markets for fixed and mobile voice call termination, given the establishment of Eurorates
Following the national public consultation process, ANCOM together with the industry has agreed the draft decision on withdrawing the individual obligations incumbent on the providers of voice call termination at fixed and – respectively – mobile locations, that had been...
2024-01-26
2023 review: More than 3500 control actions in the telecom sector
In 2023, ANCOM carried out 3,579 control actions to ensure the enforcement and observance of the legal provisions and of the regulations imposed by the Authority to promote competition on the markets for electronic communications and postal services and to...
2024-01-19
More than 1.5 million telephone numbers ported in 2023
In 2023, the upward trend in the volume of ported phone numbers continued, with a new peak reached since the launch of the portability service, in 2008. Thus, 1,541,269 phone numbers changed their operator last year, while keeping the user....
2024-01-17
Online workshop on the role of trusted notifiers in the context of DSA
To the entities wishing to become trusted flaggers pursuant to DSA The French broadcasting and digital services regulatory authority is organising a webinar on the role of trusted flaggers in the context of DSA entitled GETTING READY FOR THE DSA:...
2024-01-10
Itemised bills for electronic communications services - a useful tool to keep a check on expenses
The affordability of telephone and internet services is linked, inter alia, to the users’ receiving information on the costs incurred and to the ability to keep a check on their expenses. In addition to the usual standard bill, which is...
2024-01-04
Technical quality parameters
The Internet access providers will have the obligation to include in the contracts the following technical quality parameters: data transfer speed – the contracts will specify the nominal/maximum data transfer speed and the guaranteed minimum data transfer speed. If the...
2024-01-04
ANCOM Study: sustainable electronic and postal communications
The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications of Romania (ANCOM) has conducted a study on the environmental impact of electronic and postal communications to identify the population’s awareness level, attitude and perceptions towards the actions meant to limit...
2023-12-19
The number of 5G connections doubled in H1 2023
The number of 5G mobile internet connections doubled in the first half of this year, to over 1.5 million. Fixed Gigabit interned connections kept growing, by 10%. The 1.9 million such connections account for almost 30% of the total number,...
2023-12-06
New regulations regarding the general authorization regime for the provision of postal services debated by ANCOM
The draft decision on the general authorisation regime for the provision of postal services was discussed during the most recent meeting of the Consultative Council. The decision to be adopted repeals the current decision and lays down a new...
2023-11-22
ANCOM adopted the updated edition of the National Table of Frequency Band Allocations
During the most recent meeting of the Consultative Council, ANCOM approved the update of the National Table of Frequency Band Allocations (NTFA). The NTFA is an essential radio spectrum management tool which needs continuous adjustments due to the fact that...
2023-11-20
Electronic communications contracts continue even after the end of the initial term
ANCOM: At the end of the initial duration, of no more than 24 months, an electronic communications contract may be extended automatically, for a definite or indefinite period. The users may terminate the contract without any penalty, at any time...
2023-11-02
The Romanian Electronic Communications Market in the Second Half of 2010
“Despite the difficult economic environment we further faced in the second semester of 2010, except for fixed telephony and leased line services, all the other services, mobile telephony, Internet access, audiovisual programme retransmission and data transmission, registered increases”,Eduard Lovin, Regulation...