Press Releases

2009-08-05

ANCOM’s Recommendations Regarding the Post-Earthquake Use of Telephone Networks

The telephone networks have a limited capacity as regards call management. Under emergency circumstances, a sudden increase of the number of calls may overburden the networks and, consequently, block them. How can you avoid blocking the telephone networks under emergency...

2009-08-04

Collaboration protocol concluded between the Competition Council and ANCOM

Today, the President of the Competition Council, Bogdan Chiritoiu, and the President of the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM), Catalin Marinescu, have signed a new collaboration protocol with a view to ensure and promote competition in...

2009-07-16

ANCOM reviews the Wholesale and Retail Markets corresponding to fixed telephony services

ANCOM submits for public consultation three draft decisions reviewing the retail markets for access and calls services provided at a fixed location and the wholesale markets for services of call origination at fixed locations and transit on the public telephone...

2009-07-09

ANCOM Decided to Extend the Prioritization System for Calls to 112

ANCOM has completed the assessment of the providers’ manner of implementing the steps for the prioritization of calls to the emergency number 112 and transmitted the Ministry of Communications and Information Society a set of recommendations in view of handling...

2009-06-30

100,000 Telephone Numbers Ported in Romania

At the beginning of this week, the 100,000th telephone number has been successfully ported in Romania. ”One hundred thousand numbers have been ported. Just as many as to show us that number portability is working and that the Romanian telephony...

2009-06-30

100,000 Telephone Numbers Ported in Romania

  At the beginning of this week, the 100,000th telephone number has been successfully ported in Romania. ”One hundred thousand numbers have been ported. Just as many as to show us that number portability is working and that the Romanian...

2009-06-29

Mobile Telephony Operators Will Release, Upon Request, the Handsets Locked on Their Network

  Starting from September, the mobile telephony operators on the Romanian market will unlock, upon the users’ request, the handsets encoded on their networks. ANCOM, together with the Association of Mobile Operators in Romania (AOMR) and its members, have laid...

2009-06-26

Numbering Resources Allotted by ANCOM

So far, ANCOM has allotted 11.29 million numbers in the 0Z=02 domain and more than 20 million numbers in the 0Z=03 domain for fixed telephone services, 50 million in the 0Z=07 domain for mobile telephone services, as well as more...

2009-06-24

Amendments to the Strategy for the 3.6-3.8 GHz Frequency Proposed by ANCOM

    Following the consultation with the electronic communications operators and the providers of equipments operating in the 3.6 – 3.8 GHz radio frequency bands, today, ANCOM has sent the Ministry of Communications and Information Society (MCSI) a set of...

2009-06-10

InfoClick Is the Universal Service Provider to Create and Manage a Subscriber Directory and Offer a Directory Enquiry Service

Following the assessment of the offers submitted by three companies during the two tender procedures for making available a directory enquiry service and a subscriber directory, ANCOM designated as a universal service provider the company InfoClick SA, in association with...

2009-06-04

In 2008, the Mobile Telephony Users Made 16 Billion Calls

  “Although in 2008 the first signs of the world economic crisis appeared in Romania too, all the electronic communications sectors registered significant increases. We will be able to assess the effects of the current economic climate on the Romanian...

2009-06-01

ANCOM Adopted a Decision Extending the Activation Term for 118(xyz) Numbers

Yesterday, 29 May 2009, the ANCOM President adopted and sent for publication in the Romanian Official Journal the Decision no.379/2009 amending the Decision of the National Regulatory Authority for Communications and Information Technology no.321/2008 on the allocation and use of...

2009-05-22

ANCOM Welcomes Telecommunications Students to Internship

Today, 22 May 2009, ANCOM organised, at its premises in Bucharest, Cluj, Iasi and Timisoara, meetings with more than 100 students and with professors of the faculties of Electronics and Telecommunications of the four university centres. The programme “ANCOM Supports...

2009-05-15

17 May 2009 – A Day Dedicated to "Protecting Children in Cyberspace"

Every year, on the 17th of May, people celebrate the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, aiming to raise awareness of the possibilities that the use of the Internet and other information and communication technologies (ICT) can bring to societies...

2009-05-14

Starting Today, More Information for the Telephony Users

Today, 14 May, the decision on the obligations of informing the end-users, incumbent on the providers of publicly available electronic communications services will enter into force. Thus, the telephony operators will have the obligation to better inform their customers regarding...

2009-05-08

National Numbers for Directory Enquiry Services in the 118(xyz) Range May Be Activated Within 12 Months from Allotment

The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) has launched for public consultation a draft decision with a view to extending the activation term for the National Numbers for Directory Enquiry Services in the 118(xyz) range by six...

2009-04-30

Five Offers for the Provision of the Directory Enquiry Service and of the Subscriber Directory

Within the two tender procedures launched in March, ANCOM received five offers: two offers (from Infoclick and Mediasat) for the designation of the universal service provider that will make publicly available a directory enquiry service and three offers (from Infoclick,...

2009-04-28

Mobile Telephone Networks Overburdened, after Earthquake

The control carried out by ANCOM at the main telephony operators revealed that no interruptions occurred in the functioning of the telephone networks immediately after the earthquake of Saturday, 25 April. However, significant traffic congestions were registered, which led to...

2009-04-27

Three Mobile Operators Will Decrease Their Interconnection Tariffs Starting 1 May 2009

”I have signed and sent the operators the individual decisions on the designation of all the five mobile operators from Romania as providers with significant power on the market of mobile call termination on their own networks. By these decisions,...

2009-04-09

Higher Broadband Penetration – ANCOM’s Top Priority in 2009

”The broadband penetration rate in Romania is half the average penetration rate in the EU. In the century of speed and information, a connection to broadband Internet at affordable tariffs should not be considered luxury, but a necessity of public...