04.12.2024

ANCOM communicated to the Mayoralty of Galați its decision approving the technical and economic conditions for the access of the providers of public electronic communications networks to the physical infrastructure (underground ducts) built by the municipality. ANCOM Decision no. 759/2024 covers the tariffs and the other access conditions included in the access regulation, as well as in the model of the access agreement and the model of the request for access to the underground ducts of Galați. 

The technical and economic conditions for the access to the infrastructure of the municipality of Galați

The underground ducts intended for the installation of public electronic communications networks in Galați are built both from the municipality’s own funds and from European funds.

The Mayoralty of Galați ensures the same conditions of access and use of the underground infrastructure to all the providers of public electronic communications networks. The access is granted upon the providers’ request, following an analysis and planning of the occupancy of the available space, with the main purpose of ensuring the optimum and judicious use of the ducts space.

Where the conditions for the granting of access to the underground electronic communications infrastructure are fulfilled, the Mayoralty of Galați concludes with the providers in question access agreements which establish the conditions for exercising this right. The installation of the public electronic communications networks will take place under the supervision of the representatives of the local public authorities.

Tarrifs

The tariffs proposed by the Mayoralty of Galați with a view to encourage efficient investments in the infrastructure required for the provision of broadband internet access services are as follows:

• 1,41 lei/linear meter/year for the service of renting space in the transmission sewer for the installation of a fibre optic or copper cable using appropriate installation technologies. For the installed cable/sub-duct with exterior diameter of more than 14 mm, the tariff will be obtained by applying an increase coefficient calculated as the ratio between the exterior diameter of the cable/sub-duct (expressed in mm) and 14 mm;
• 2,03 lei/linear meter/year for the service of renting space in the distribution sewer for the installation of a fibre optic or copper cable using appropriate installation technologies. For the installed cable/sub-duct with exterior diameter of more than 10 mm, the tariff will be obtained by applying an increase coefficient calculated as the ratio between the exterior diameter of the cable/sub-duct (expressed in mm) and 10 mm. The tariffs depend on the actual length of the cables and/or sub-ducts subject to access, do not include VAT and will be annually indexed with the inflation rate.

Obligations of the Mayoralty of Galați

The Mayoralty of Galați has the obligation to publish on its website all the essential information on the electronic communications underground physical infrastructure (location, availability of space within the ducts) and to update this information whenever necessary.

The granting of the right of access may be refused only in objective and well-justified cases, and the reasons which grounded the decision will be communicated in writing to the applicant.

The local authority may cease to provide access service to the physical infrastructure only in duly justified situations, such as those caused by the serious breach by the provider of public electronic communications networks, of some of its obligations under the access agreement.

ANCOM Decision no. 759/2024 approving the technical and economic conditions for the access to the physical infrastructure built by the municipality (underground ducts) intended for the installation of public electronic communications networks in Galați is available, in Romanian, here.