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1. How is granted the right to use technical resources?

The right to use technical resources is awarded by decision of the ANCOM president, for each category of technical resources requested, on an indefinite period. By way of exception, at the reasoned request of the provider of public electronic communications networks or of the provider of publicly available electronic communications services, as the case may be, ANCOM may assign technical resources for test purposes, on an indefinite period.

The applications for the awarding of the right to use technical resources are analysed pursuant to the principles of objectivity, transparency, non-discrimination and proportionality.

 

The general criteria applied in the analysis of the applications for technical resources are as follows:

  • the necessity of obtaining the respective technical resources;

  • the network structure and the features of the services provided by the applicant;

  • the efficient and rational use of the technical resources.

The NSPC are assigned in indivisible blocks of 8 codes each. The ISPC are assigned individually.

 

The use of the signalling point codes which ANCOM assigns to the providers of electronic communications networks with common channel signalling system standardised by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), called SS7, is presented separately.

 

A provider of public electronic communications networks may benefit from the right to use regularly one MNC.

The use of the MNC which ANCOM assigns to the providers of electronic communications networks is presented separately.

 

A provider of public electronic communications networks may benefit from the right to use one NIC.

 

The RN is assigned to the providers of publicly available electronic communications services which were allotted numbers under the licence for the use of numbering resources.

 

A provider of publicly available electronic communications services may benefit from the right to use regularly one routing number. In the case of a provider that was allotted several categories of numbering resources under the licence for the use of numbering resources or where the routing number identifies a network switch, the respective provider may be awarded the right to use several RN, in compliance with the special criteria specified in Decision no.380/2013.

 

2. How can one request technical resources?

The applicant must send a request to ANCOM, by filling in the relevant mandatory fields in the Standard Form provided in Annex no. 1 of Decision no.380/2013, with the subsequent amendments and completions, depending on the category of the requested technical resources.
The Standard-Form provided in Annex no. 1 may be accompanied by information or documents the applicant deems relevant for analysing the request.
The applicant cannot specify, in the request for technical resources, a certain format of the requested resources.

3. How can I waive part or all of my rights to use technical resources?

According to Article 28(1) letter d) of Decision 380/2013, with the subsequent amendments and completions,the holder of the usage right must send the request for partial or total waiver of the right to use technical resources to ANCOM by filling in the standard-request.

4. Which is the timeframe within which the individual decision awarding the right to use technical resources, for each category of technical resources requested, is issued?

ANCOM grants the right to use the requested technical resources or communicates the rejection of the application, as the case may be, within 3 weeks from the date when the application or all the additional information ANCOM requested was transmitted. In the case of the ISPC, this is allotted or the application for it is rejected within 30 days from the transmission of the application or of all the additional information requested.

 

The ANCOM President’s Decision no.380/2013 is the official act which regulates the procedure on the assignment of technical resources.

The technical resources are those resources required for identifying the electronic communications networks or elements of the electronic communications networks in view of their operation or for the provision of electronic communications services.

 

Main categories of technical resources:

  • National Signalling Point Codes (NSPC);

  • International Signalling Point Codes (ISPC);

  • Mobile Network Codes (MNC);

  • Network Identification Codes (NIC);

  • Routing Numbers (RN)

Applicable regulatory framework

  • Government Emergency Ordinance no. 111/2011 on electronic communications

  • ANCOM President’s Decision no. 380/2013 on the assignment and use of certain technical resources, with the subsequent amendments and completions

  • The categories of technical resources provided under point a, 1 to 3 and 5 are defined in accordance with the specific regulations of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) or with the standards of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), as applicable.

ANCOM objectives in the field of management of the technical resources

  • make available adequate technical resources for all the providers of public electronic communications networks or providers of publicly available electronic communications services

  • ensure the non-discriminatory access to the technical resources for all the providers of public electronic communications networks or providers of publicly available electronic communications services

  • ensure the rational and efficient use of the technical resources.

How to obtain and send the forms referred to in this chapter
Standard forms/requests are available at ANCOM’s headquarters and territorial branches, as well as on the Authority’s website.
The forms/requests and the required documents may be sent to ANCOM’s headquarters or territorial branches, depending on where the requester’s domicile or premises are situated, by one of the following modalities:
o    the requester or a requester’s representative submits them, upon signature;
o    using a postal service;
o    in written form, as an electronic document, to numerotatie@ancom.org.ro , with an incorporated, attached of logically associated extended electronic signature, based on a certificate valid at the respective moment and generated by a secured device for creating electronic signatures.
The submission date is considered, as applicable, the date of entry in ANCOM’s General Record of Correspondence, the date of confirming reception at ANCOM’s headquarters by means of a postal service with advice of delivery or the date of confirming the reception of the electronic written document.
Where the presented information is deemed insufficient, ANCOM can request additional information.