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ANCOM Concludes the Series of 2012 Regional Meetings at Timisoara
28.06.2012
On Thursday, 28 June 2012, during a meeting with the electronic communications industry in Timisoara, the representatives of the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) presented the new provisions of the legal framework in the field, highlighting the way in which these provisions impact the provider–end-user relationship. Data on the Authority’s control activity were also provided during this meeting. The gathering in Timisoara is the last from a series of nine such meetings which gave the possibility to the Authority’s representatives to talk directly with more than 800 providers of electronic communications networks and services throughout the country. The Authority thus concluded the series of “ANCOM Regional Meetings” held in 2012 with a view to inform the providers in the field on the new relevant legal framework and support them to lawfully carry out their activity and ensure a high level of transparency in the relationship with the end-users.
The meetings offered the providers the possibility to discuss the problems they deal with in their regular activity and to forward suggestions in view of a better collaboration with the Authority. The most important aspects and issues approached in the discussions between the ANCOM representatives and the providers of electronic communications networks and services concerned the contracts concluded with the end-users, the security and integrity of the electronic communications networks and services, the interferences occurring in the border areas, as well as the infrastructure law.
This was also an opportunity for the ANCOM representatives to present the amendments of the decision on the conditions applicable to the porting of telephone numbers, portability data, as well as information on the Authority’s control activity.
778,928 numbers were ported as of 31 May 2012, since the portability service was introduced at end-2008. Out of these, 530,853 were mobile telephone numbers, 248,075 fixed telephone numbers (of which 233,374 fixed telephone geographic numbers and 14,701 location-independent numbers - for fixed telephony). The largest amount of mobile telephone numbers were ported into the networks of the following mobile telephony providers: Vodafone (181,522); Cosmote (176,875); Orange (166,823); RCS&RDS (4,909) and Telemobil (719). As for the fixed telephony providers, most numbers were ported into the networks of UPC (70,193); RCS&RDS (65,400); Orange (46,599); Vodafone (42,808) and Romtelecom (11,744).
As regards the controls conducted by the Authority, in the period spanning from the beginning of the year through 31 May 2012, ANCOM undertook 2,514 controls, transmitting 29 notifications and 67 warnings and enforcing 13 fines amounting to RON 109,000.
Thus, the internal reports of the ANCOM regional divisions show that one third from the total number of control actions, 845, envisaged the electronic communications providers – 8 controls on the Internet providers, 833 on the telephony providers and 4 on the providers of linear audiovisual programme retransmission services. Following these controls, ANCOM transmitted 23 notifications and 10 warnings and enforced a contravention fine amounting to RON 5,000. At the same time, 169 control actions were conducted on the manufacturers, importers and distributors of radio equipment and telecommunications terminal equipment. Approx. 30% (767 controls) of the 2,514 total control actions were conducted on the holders of licences for the use of de radio-electric frequencies – 756 on the providers of radiocommunication services and 11 on the radio and television providers. Following these controls, ANCOM transmitted 6 notifications and 23 warnings and enforced 4 fines amounting to RON 2,000.
Furthermore, 29% of the conducted controls concerned the postal service providers.Out of the 733 controls conducted on these providers, 342 envisaged the universal service provider in the postal sector – Romanian Post National Company – which was applied 17 warnings. ANCOM transmitted 17 warnings and enforced 8 fines amounting to RON 102,000 to the postal providers that did not observe the legal provisions.
