22.11.2023

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 the international regulations on which it is based are constantly being updated or adapted as a result of the technological progress in this very dynamic field of electronic communications.

Amendments adopted

The new edition of the NTFA, drafted by ANCOM, took into account the provisions in force the 2020 edition of the ITU Radio Regulations –, which includes the decisions of the World Radiocommunication Conference held in 2019, the decisions of the European Commission (EC/EU) and of the European Conference of Post and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT/ECC) regarding the harmonized technical conditions for the use of frequency bands for different radio systems and applications and the CEPT/ECC recommendations that were issued after the adoption of the NTFA in force, as well as the ERC Report 25 – European Common Table of frequency allocations and applications in the frequency range 8.3 kHz to 3000 GHz (ECA Table), updated on 10 March 2023.

Thus, in accordance with the international and European regulations issued since the last revision of the NTFA, the draft decision brings changes in which concern several frequency bands.

One example is the introduction in the 5925 – 6425 MHz band of Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/1067 of 17 June 2021 on the harmonised use of radio spectrum in the 5945-6425 MHz frequency band for the implementation of wireless access systems including radio local area networks (WAS/RLANs), and of Decision ECC/DEC/(20)01 on the harmonised use of the frequency band 5945-6425 MHz for Wireless Access Systems including Radio Local Area Networks (WAS/RLAN), while column Possible Applications was updated accordingly by the introduction of WAS/RLAN.

The adopted draft decision will be submitted for endorsement to the Radiocommunications Interdepartmental Commission, established by the Government Decision no.315/2011, and will enter into force after its publication in the Romanian Official Journal.