08:30 – 09:00

Registration

09:00

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10:00

Session 1 -

Opening Session – An informed user is a powerful user

Keynote: Sorin Mihai GRINDEANU, ANCOM President – ANCOM’s mobile coverage Map

Participants:

• Marcel CIOLACU, President of the Chamber of Deputies, Romanian Parliament
• Alexandru PETRESCU, Minister of Communications and Information Society of Romania
• Raed ARAFAT – State Secretary, Ministry of Internal Affairs
• Mircea CAZAN, President of Commission for IT&C, Senate of Romania
• Maria Cristina TOMA, Manager, National Museum of Maps and Old Books

An informed user is a powerful user. In an increasingly interconnected world, relying on ever more innovative communications, striking a balance between promoting innovation among operators and protecting end-users is a permanent concern. In pursuit of this balance, regulators develop end-user information and education tools, for the users not only to get maximum benefits, but also to be satisfied with their communications. Although - according to ANCOM’s latest survey - 93% of the Romanians are content with the quality of their mobile communications, lack of signal or the poor quality of mobile coverage are the top reasons for discontent. Thus, ANCOM’s state-of-the-art mobile coverage map has been developed to meet a need of the Romanian end-users.

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee break

10:30

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12:00

Session 2 - Accurate and reliable coverage maps for the stakeholders

Keynote: Cristin POPA, Executive Director of Monitoring and Control Executive Division, ANCOM, Romania – how monitoring the spectrum translates into power for end-users

Participants:

• Abdou Koussie GUIRSI, Director of Control and Inspection Division of ARCEP, Republic of Chad
• Michel Van BELLINGHEN, President, Regulatory Authority of Belgium (BIPT)
• Maja MITIC, co-chair of BEREC’s Wireless Network Evolution Expert Working Group (RATEL, Serbia)          
• Tomaz STURM, Telecommunications Department of AKOS, Slovenia   

Q&A

Moderator: Mihai CONSTANTIN, journalist

Ensuring coverage of mobile networks and good quality of service are common goals of both regulators and operators. As a pivotal point within the electronic communications sector, regulators should provide highly-accessible independent and reliable information on the state of mobile coverage to all stakeholders involved: consumers, policy makers, national governments, industry and wider public. An easily accessible map of mobile coverage gives an overview of the development of the different electronic communication services provided over mobile networks. Greater transparency on the coverage provided by different operators can help promote competition between them when it comes to delivering better coverage and possibly future network investments. 

12:00 – 12:30

Conclusions